I think the winning move is just to ignore the legislation, and drag the government into an EFF or ACLU-funded First Amendment lawsuit if they try to enforce anything.
Looking at their website it seems they're trying to target a slightly less tech savvy audience which are interested in checking on agents while away. Someone willing to blow cash on overpriced AI subscriptions, I could see justifying blowing money on this.
> "pure HTTPS port 443 -- you literally can't block it without breaking the web."
Sure you can, you do Man In The Middle certificate inspection and then filter it aggressively like it was HTTP; that's the product companies like ZScaler offer, and basically any business/enterprise firewall device - internet filtering to protect your company and prevent or detect data exfiltration and malicious activity. Or perhaps you could say that does 'break the web' but companies do it anyway and pay a lot of money so they can do it. (ZScaler is a $23Bn market cap company).
Honestly, at that point I'd just run SSH over WebSockets with websocat. WebRTC only adds extra complexity. Tailscale DERP relay servers also run over port 80/443 anyway.
The problem is forum UX on mobile is mediocre, and people have to create an account for each forum. Most people are using mobile devices now, like it or not, so convenience of rich text chat wins out.
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