Fortunately the mirrors are distributed, so maybe that reduces the risk.
People tend to worry about other countries, but it is usually within the country they live in that they have to worry about their rights being infringed.
Except in the USA where they will, in fact, arrest everyone.
Note that pirate means no laws apply to you including the ones that would protect you from things like murder.
[if they had to comply with the bill as written] Tailscale told The Globe and Mail that it would have to "pursue corporate structures" to distance its international operations from Canada.
https://betakit.com/tailscale-windscribe-co-sign-open-letter... / https://archive.vn/899CmAnd the legislation still requires mandatory data retention and interception capabilities for all VPNs, encrypted messaging services, and every other online service.
And I guess VPNs are not end to end encrypted. The provider would still be able to access your data if they want to unlike something like Tor. So, it will be the death of privacy focussed VPNs. But presumably things like Signal and Apple's disk encryption will be fine as only the user holds the keys.
I know conservatives love some kinds of control, and centrist/leftist parties love other kinds of control. Swinging from one to the other gets you both, not neither.
And even if they are not backdoored at first, once the state knocks on the developers door with the great offer that their kid will grow up with a father who is not in jail people's principles might change quickly.
The proliferation of space access goes both ways. LEO isn't exactly difficult to reach (many college teams can do it). GEO might work but then you need relays and any relay satellite are essentially tacitly complicit.
Satellite (and most aerospace related technologies) are glass cannons. They aren't defensible like a bunker or a tank.