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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 gpt5 »

nomilk wrote: post #89

Can someone ELI5 how it actually works? Say I'm a UK citizen with advanced glioblastoma (implying loss of faculties, seizures, and pain; no cure, and things to worsen before eventually passing away, possibly some time from now). Suppose I wish to view websites on euthanasia options, but am blocked from doing so by the UK's Online Safety Act. How does/will Freedom.gov help? (is it essentially a free VPN?) Also, as oth…

According to Reuters, it will essentially be a free VPN.

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

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

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Post by 0xy »

sublimefire wrote: post #111
mlh496 wrote: post #64

Sad that western Europe is pushing so hard for limits to free speech & privacy. I'm not surprised given their history, but it's sad nonetheless.

What limits? You can do pretty much what you want but make sure you can defend yourself in the court. I feel there is a bit of a disconnect in terms where people get the news where in US you kind of expect biggest news providers to be biassed, eg Fox, hence reliance on social media. In Europe gov media is quite strong and objective, and the idea that it restricts something is odd. A great example is the banning of RT…

Thousands of people in the UK have been arrested for social media posts, some for speech recognized as protected by international organizations.

Germany is currently actively campaigning to force everyone to use their real names on all social media and force ID checks to do so, a clear chilling effect for free speech.

Macron has been railing against free speech specifically in recent months, calling it "bullshit".

Europe is against free speech, any argument to the contrary must contend with the above examples of them trampling on rights.

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

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Post by reactordev »

Aurornis wrote: post #140
Henchman21 wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never tapped a port, eh? Edited to not be so flippant: I work in HFT/finance where recording all traffic is required I think by law and definitely for one's own sanity. We're able to maintain nanosecond trades while capturing ALL the traffic. It has zero impact on the traffic. This is normal, widely used tech. Think stuff like Ixia passive taps and/or Arista Metamako FPGA-based tap/mux devices.

> Never tapped a port, eh? I have. I have a background in high speed networking. Have you ever paused for a moment to consider how much infrastructure would be required to send 80% of data on the internet across the country and into a single datacenter in Virginia? If you've worked in HFT, you can probably at least start to imagine the scale we're talking about.

It’s not a single data center, it’s about 200 of them.

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

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Post by paulryanrogers »

chatmasta wrote: post #154
ohyoutravel wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, maybe USAID could have helped here. Or a robust State Dept.

Wait until you find out who funded Tor development...

The US Navy. Why would that be surprising?

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

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Post by 587687646343767 »

MiiMe19 wrote: post #114
carlm42 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sad that the United States are pushing so hard to encourage the propagation of propaganda & lies. I'm not surprised given their history, but it's sad nonetheless.

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

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Post by 0xy »

csrse wrote: post #70

Fantastic! Now EU just needs to setup freedomgov.eu that bounces off freedom.gov so americans also can browse whatever with no restrictions.

Link to the US government banning free speech on the internet. You have no credibility when the UK, Spain, Germany and France have been railing against free speech and calling it "bullshit" in the last month.

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Post by codethief »

mlh496 wrote: post #64

Sad that western Europe is pushing so hard for limits to free speech & privacy. I'm not surprised given their history, but it's sad nonetheless.

> Sad that western Europe is pushing so hard for limits to […] privacy

Uh what? :-)

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

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Post by linkregister »

jasonvorhe wrote: post #98
nomilk wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might do that too , but access to information is just so utterly critical, and exponentially moreso in circumstances where government brutally cracks down on it, as we saw in Egypt during the Arab Spring and we're seeing in Iran presently.

Then again, Egypt was definitely driven by Western agitators, as was the case Iran recently. Iran probably got Russian tech to trace starlink users during the blackout which put a target on many Western assets in Iran. I'm not saying the Iran government didn't also kill and torture independent actors nor that I support state violence (against its citizens, in this case). Just saying that any government will use viole…

Evidence to the contrary abounds regarding Egypt. Secretary of State Clinton famously rejected the popularly-elected Muslim Brotherhood government and pledged support to Mubarak. This tacit approval led him to have a successful coup against the popularly elected government.

If by "western" you meant some other power then you should be specific. Western as a term is imprecise and can be interpreted differently depending on the audience.

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