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You know what can never be shutdown arbitrarily at midnight for political reasons, and its users denied service?

That’s right, Ethereum

The internet has been completely shut down in Afghanistan, according to our internal data.

Our tools help to bypass censorship, but here access has been cut off.

We stand against acts like this and believe that both privacy &amp; freedom of speech are human rights.

(Timezone CEST) https://t.co/RbpgLvvUEG

Ethereum has been completely shut down in Afghanistan.

I think we neglect how dependent Ethereum is on internet access. A censorship-resistant "always-on" ledger isn’t much help if a government can just pull the plug by shutting down the internet.

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Agreed. Internet access cannot be taken for granted.

The "glass half full" perspective I have is that the individual's assets on Ethereum at least still remains "live" and in the individual's ownership (e.g. staked ETH continues to earn yield that accrues to the individual) even if internet access in the individual's country was shut off.

Devil's advocate: https://x.com/SchorLukas/status/1973110424985063535

You know the idiots will still try one day 😂