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Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Post by hgadx »

0xDEF wrote: post #28
netsharc wrote: post #8

Maybe related to the Proto-Nazi party AfD winning a district a few days ago. And this 5 day old news story: https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-far-right-afd-securi... "Germany’s far-right AfD placed under security service surveillance" - "The party is now treated as a ‘suspected case’ for far-right extremism". I wonder if anyone can see inside the right-wing chat networks and if they've been mentioning Tor. Alth…

As a Danish person who has been to Eastern Germany (outside Berlin) I'm really not surprised by the rise of the AfD. It's common to see people on social media praise Germans for de-Nazification and criticize the Japanese for not confronting their past in the same way. Those people have clearly not interacted with Eastern Germans. In Eastern Germany the underlying neuroticism, persecution complex, and willingness to b…

This is completely removed from reality.

The right wing movements in Europe started around 2000 in Italy, Austria, the Netherlands and France. Germany was way behind.

In Germany the AfD won voters after Merkel let in too many refugees in 2015 against the will of many CDU voters.

The AfD is probably less extreme than MAGA and most European counterparts, including Scandinavian ones. But it is always easy to pile on Germany, isn't it?

(I don't vote for them, don't like them, but this is getting silly.)

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Post by duozerk »

0xDEF wrote: post #38
duozerk wrote: post #31

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Looking into it you appear to be right, thanks; that single study is almost exclusively the single source of all similar articles, too. Admittedly I don't use twitter, so I don't have first hand experience in this.

It's still pretty obvious that there is a propaganda effort from NATO as well, and one that seems to work a lot more than Russia's on western audiences.

> There are literally viral tweets blaming Ukraine for creating COVID-19.

lmao that's so insane it almost sounds like a bit

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Post by hutzlibu »

duozerk wrote: post #31
hutzlibu wrote: post #19

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And NATO or ukrainian propaganda? Because that is also a thing, even though not as blatant. The problem with banning information, is that it is easy to abuse this and it creates a martyr effect. I rather would like people be able to judge information by themself and not decide for them.

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But I also see russian propaganda, so I can compare and confirm it is not at all on the same level.

But if I would not been able anymore to see the russian point of view, then I would start to suspect they have a point I am not allowed to see, to keep me under control. But now I can see it and so I can see that their point is just russian nationalism/empire thinking with zero interest of truth, just power. Full of literal lies. So yes, you also can find lies and manipulation in western reporting. But I have a hard time understanding why anyone can think it is the same.

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Post by circuit10 »

RobotToaster wrote: post #3

China has the great firewall, the UK has Hadrian's firewall, I guess this is the Berlin firewall.

As someone from the UK I’ve never seen anything blocked on my home Internet (except actual scam sites but you can turn that off, and yes that’s from my ISP and not the browser)

My mobile data does incorrectly flag some things as 18+ though

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Post by belorn »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #11

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I constantly use tor as a way to get a third view when debugging connection issues for customers and malware infected websites. If you ever experience the issue of a customer saying they can't connect, but when you test it it works perfectly fine, tor is great to verify if the issue might effect more customers. As a side effect of it being ipv4 only, you can also test issues when one protocol work but not the other (there are alternative tools but tor is by far easiest at hand).
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