And of course, the price is still an issue for those censored countries, the global south, the price of subscription of these technologies. Of course, this could be subsidized by democratic nations, as they did with the internet in the early days, by developing and expanding the technology in subsidized ways. Satellite internet could be subsidized. And believe me, if you make it affordable in those countries, then it’s not only that the people find all the ways to go around all the barriers to adopt those technologies and share it with others, it automatically neutralizes all the investment that those countries are making in building those firewalls, because they know that they cannot control the information by just banning and switching off the internet.

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