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children figuring out VPNs in a week while these bumfucks (state that they) didn't manage to understand it in the years they've been given just goes to show the many orders of magnitudes of difference in their intelligence
No, this is intentional, the ultimate goal is a censored internet a la China. This was just the easiest gateway to doing that.
They are coming for VPNs next.
tbf it's probably both corruption and incompetence, not just one or the other
Never attribute to incompetence that which can also be attributed to malice.