silverpill@moon The value of a network depends on its size, so the total number of nodes and distribution of users are quite important. If you cut off 99% users the network will be dead no matter what.
Censorship circumvention has a price, and most users will not pay it.
By the way, the cheapest solution is not to deploy a new node, but to use a VPN.
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