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The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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As someone who grew up during the early days of the internet I don't know of any other way to describe this than utterly depressing. The internet was supposed to be this bastion of knowledge, information and free exchange of ideas. Now it's just heading towards another avenue for large-organizations monetize the individual.

...he posted, on Hacker News, a bastion of knowledge and information.

Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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It's a bit disappointing to see that aside from a few abstained votes, everybody just chose to vote along party lines. Do these people just rubber stamp a bill because there's a D or an R next to it? Even if it meant more nay votes for the bill, I really wish we had representatives that vote based on critical thought rather than what their friends were doing. I mean, as long as I'm dreaming too, we should give assemb…

Yes, and it's been getting worse. See the charts here: http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2015/04/24/poli...

Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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Time to start paying the VPN tax.

given the fact that deep packet inspection is real, to what extent will this actually help?

There's a limit to DPI, if you use an efficient encryption and ssh, you should be fine unless they really want to get you.

Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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Before we jump in a shock and talk about the TFW political disaster there is happening in DC at the moment I want to ask a question: Is there a simple guide or steps that I can follow to make myself anonymous? I know there is TOR and VPNs, how can I go about setting it up?

This might be a good starting place for you.

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-in-5-min...

Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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This, right here, is the consequence of the withdrawal from politics many geeks advocated very strongly in an earlier time. "Everything is corrupt, it doesn't matter"... turns out to only be a viable philosophy when things mostly work well enough.

What we have in protections and freedoms were purchased through a ton of hard work by prior generations: the liberty to slack and think that it just works ok is a nice side effect of the prior sweat.

Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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Please share your VPN setups. I would like to have my VPN connection at the router level, if possible. Edit: Here's sort of an answer to my own question https://www.howtogeek.com/221889/connect-your-home-router-to...

I used to have an OpenVPN setup but I ditched it for https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
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