The feds won’t “raid servers to take down relays”, they coordinate with DNS authorities to stop resolving the relevant domain names and with ISPs to eliminate routing for the relevant IP ranges.
In Spain, every time there’s a soccer game cloudflare becomes unreachable because their feds think that will stop pirate streams.
Brazil blocked WhatsApp multiple times, again no physical server raiding required.
Do I need to remind the Chinese firewall performs DPI and other advanced traffic snooping for their iron grip confrol?
Once you realize how brittle the internet really is you’re gonna shit bricks.
