'Microsoft killed my online life,' Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza
windowscentral.com
A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza.
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Signal is centrally hosted thus it's proverbial rug can be pulled.
Wait until you find out about internet service providers
You can have more than one dumb pipe to push bits through, but if the ISP can read your network traffic then you have bigger problems than a single-point-of-failure.
Do you have more than one ISP?
I'm very lucky in that regard. Not only do we have a local ISP and mobile service from a national carrier, but the electric co-op that provides our power just ran 2.5Gb/s fiber through the neighborhood and lets members use 200Mb/s on it for free.
Who doesn't?
For the most part the ISP doesn't have a way to know you are using VoIP to contact people in a particular country (unless you are using a VoIP service owned by the ISP of course).
True. Yet another linchpin.
Edit: spelling.