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Google or another more privacy-supporting company could block domain fronting for everyone _except_ Signal, Tor, and similar projects, with some sort of application process. Blocking everyone seems heavy handed but fronting itself is ultimately a sneaky way around censorship rather than an intended feature.


So the decision on what apps can be domain fronted because they need to get around censorship lies with Google or another big company, what could go wrong here?


I mean the entire trick to domain fronting is that some large company, whose site no country would dare censor, offers up their infrastructure as a front.

Who else do you think should decide who gets to host content through Google's servers?


> whose site no country would dare censor

Google is not accessible to about 1.4 billion people because the single government of China "dares" to censor Google. That's close to 20% of the world's population.

I don't think companies nor governments should get to decide this at all. Information wants to/should be free.




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