a project that was dead in the water but should have been alive
That statement sounds a bit too strong to me. Maybe this project wasn’t important enough to invest further effort into, but you basically tried no workarounds. E.g. probably just moving to a European cloud would have solved all your issues? (If we model the situation as some possibly illegal US govt order, or just AWS being overzealous about censoring themselves.)
Heck, all the shadow libraries and sci-hub and torrent sites manage to stay up on the clearnet, and those are definitely illegal according to the law.
And in extreme cases you could just host your app as a TOR hidden service. (Though making users install a separate browser app might add enough friction to kill this particular project unfortunately.)
That statement sounds a bit too strong to me. Maybe this project wasn’t important enough to invest further effort into, but you basically tried no workarounds. E.g. probably just moving to a European cloud would have solved all your issues? (If we model the situation as some possibly illegal US govt order, or just AWS being overzealous about censoring themselves.)
Heck, all the shadow libraries and sci-hub and torrent sites manage to stay up on the clearnet, and those are definitely illegal according to the law.
And in extreme cases you could just host your app as a TOR hidden service. (Though making users install a separate browser app might add enough friction to kill this particular project unfortunately.)