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IIAOPSW 2 days ago

Given we are talking about jamming a repeater in a rather extreme orbit, you have to account for the speed of light delay. By the time a bad actor gets news that a message they don't like is being transmitted and starts up the jammer the broadcast may already be over (assuming its a data transmission that comes in bursts of packets)

maxbond 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

That's a very good point. I suppose that, if we assume a bitrate, and we assume partial messages are irrecoverable, then this puts a limit on the "uncensorable bandwidth." But it's easy to imagine a protocol that splits large messages into very small pieces to so that each message is below that limit.

rtkwe 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Nothing really prevents continuous jamming the whole time it's overhead for an area you care about. All a government needs to do is broadcast noise at a high power on the band(s) of interest to completely drown out dissident signals.