"cannot be subjected to outside control, manipulation or censorship"
Even in China? When I used to live there, I'd sometimes hear about some fancy anti-censorship software or service and it invariably didn't actually work and turned out only to be meant for comfortable free places like America.
Reticulum (noticing similarities to old UUCP here) doesn't need the Internet, TCP/IP, or even Ethernet to work - networks can be built over serial lines. Therefore a possible link could be a modem link over an international phone call. I am curious if/how and sure that various countries monitor/scrape PSTN for data though. Other weird ideas off the top of my head: satellite phone, 2 shortwave channels with appropriate hardware (one for Tx other for Rx - I don't really know anything about shortwave).
Oh. I didn't know that. The page is pretty vague about what physical channels it uses so I just assumed it was on top of the internet. None of that stuff would have enough bandwidth for regular internet use, and clandestinely broadcasting on shortwave is going to cause you far more trouble with the authorities no matter what data you send!
China is the only authoritarian country I know of with the internet filtering capabilities to oppress their citizens when they use new protocols. From what I have read online, it seems like countries like Iran use a combination of network-routing-fuckery and/or enterprise middleboxes to do traffic monitoring.
For many authoritarian countries, the challenge isn't "how do I get the information out", but rather "how do I not get arrested for spreading this". Tor, with the necessary oppression proxies, works remarkably well, but is easily recognisable.
Even in China? When I used to live there, I'd sometimes hear about some fancy anti-censorship software or service and it invariably didn't actually work and turned out only to be meant for comfortable free places like America.