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.

    • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      4 months ago

      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.

        • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          4 months ago

          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.

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      4 months ago

      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).