Blocking at the rental server level might be more extensive than imagined, and censorship that cannot be fully visualized

Hello, I'm incompetent.

I've completely switched to hosting from my home server and stopped using rental servers, but I'm starting to feel that "cancel culture" might actually exist.

Generally, when comparing things, I weigh them against each other, considering the pros and cons of both sides.
I used to think Japan was a neutral country where the internet could be used freely, allowing access to sites from other countries relatively easily, but perhaps that's no longer the case.

I used to use CORESERVER provided by GMO, but I was surprised when I received a message from 美々蝶々 saying that access from Tor was not possible. I hadn't bothered to check my own site via Tor...

Regarding this matter, there's no similar information available, and perhaps very few people have been able to confirm it.

Especially since migrating to a home server, I've started receiving Russian phishing scam comments (which I verify and delete). This strongly suggests that blocking is being performed against Russian IPs.

I sincerely apologize to those who dislike Google or have an aversion to leaving digital footprints*. However, looking at access from outside Japan via Google Analytics, since migrating to a home server, the number of accesses from other countries has overwhelmingly increased.
*If you dislike such things, please note that this site can be freely accessed via Tor, etc., so please use that.

In fact, I don't want to be service-dependent, but in this case, I'm grateful that Google Analytics allowed for very clear visualization. By the way, if you use it, you'll see that detailed user access isn't visible, so don't worry too much about it.

There's no way to disclose blocking at the rental server level, and even if you use a VPN or similar to test with an IP from another country, it's fundamentally difficult to test with a truly clean IP address. It's a black box where the criteria for blocking are unknown, so there's nothing that can be done.

From Japan's perspective, given that China is becoming a closed information community, what about our own country?

I sometimes use Chinese Weibo for information gathering, and sometimes Yandex, and they are not blocked.
In contrast, what about services in our own country, Japan?

Especially recently, I feel there's a growing trend to collect more personal information under the guise of "security." Personally, I believe the best security, beyond technical capabilities, is to reduce the number of intermediaries. This means it comes down to how much an individual can improve their own abilities.

Unfortunately, my security is quite lax, and I believe this site has vulnerabilities, but I don't intend to place any critical data on it for that reason. My home server and VPN server are just personal hobbies, and it's precisely because Suwako-san published a detailed article that I'm able to discuss this.

Moreover, knowledge-rich websites from around the year 2000 are disappearing, so the era of openly and freely enjoying content might be coming to an end. A single rampage by corporations and superpowers could lead to a rapid collapse, or perhaps 100 years from now, nothing will have changed at all.

No, is there anything in past history that confirms the exact same era continued for a 100-year cycle?