Quite charitable of you to assume they would ever come to understand anything. From what I’ve seen, my money’s on them finding some way to blame the godless libs and not learning a darn thing.

So, what I’m hearing is, you engage with every video that features Joe Rogan, and now you’re surprised the algorithm is feeding you more Joe Rogan? /s 🤣 sorry, I couldn’t help myself

Is there some way of safely circumnavigating these types of blocks in countries under oppressive regimes? I know about VPNs and TOR, but are those methods actually safe?

You’re mixing multiple subjects here, one being the logistics of blocking a federated system like Lemmy, the other being whether the wrong person finds the content of such a system objectionable and labels it a “national security issue.”

I’m being a tad pedantic here, but my reason for pointing this out is that I think #2 is not far fetched at all, but I’m unsure of how feasible #1 might be and would love if somebody who knows more than I do would chime in.

EDIT: Looks like some have already discussed #2 in the other comment thread started by Teknikal.