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US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Previous discussion: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-...

Weird title, but worthy of discussion. From the little info available so far this appears to be little more than political posturing. If you want to fight censorship, an "online portal" to access all the censored content is the wrongest possible way to go about it. But we'll see.

Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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What even is this? It looks to technically be Next JS with a single canvas element. But what does in protend...? visuals with the only text on screen being... --- "Freedom is Coming" Information is power. Reclaim your human right to free expression. Get ready.

What it is is a teaser for what will undoubtedly be a giant load of far-right propaganda.

Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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post #5

Why? Seriously, why do we care so much about this? Do we not have better uses of our money. Also the irony considering recent moves by the US government in terms of control of the internet and free speech.

These things have been going on forever. Since WWII and until right now, there has been radio stations broadcasting into enemy territory, to bypass censorship.

Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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post #9

What even is this? It looks to technically be Next JS with a single canvas element. But what does in protend...? visuals with the only text on screen being... --- "Freedom is Coming" Information is power. Reclaim your human right to free expression. Get ready.

What it is is a teaser for what will undoubtedly be a giant load of far-right propaganda.

Turns out it's to "uncensor" content blocked in other countries, which we know will be a process free of bias /s

They also gutted the prior org that helped people do this in other countries on the ground

Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Previous discussion: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-... Weird title, but worthy of discussion. From the little info available so far this appears to be little more than political posturing. If you want to fight censorship, an "online portal" to access all the censored content is the wrongest possible way to go about it. But we'll see.

(This comment was posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072613 but we merged the threads)
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