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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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Post by motbus3 »

learingsci wrote: post #56
schoen wrote: post #38

I just chaired a session at the FOCI conference earlier today, where people were talking about Internet censorship circumvention technologies and how to prevent governments from blocking them. I'd like to remind everyone that the U.S. government has been one the largest funders of that research for decades. Some of it is under USAGM (formerly BBG, the parent of RFE/RL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agen…

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Can you be more specific?

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

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Post by reactordev »

recursive wrote: post #59
reactordev wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It goes deeper than that. The U.S. Government funds it, discourages other nations from using it, and spies on all web traffic as a result of it. Almost 80% of communications go through a data center in Northern VA. Within a quick drive to Langley, Quantico, DC, and other places that house three letter agencies I’m not authorized to disclose.

Speed of light establishes certain latency minima. Experimental data can falsify (or not) at geographical locations far enough from VA.

Correct but local governments using Palantir will need to provide it to them somehow.
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