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It's not a lot of effort to make them appear as if connecting from the USA without the use of VPN. Giving them a label based on their ... current proxy? ... is not a solution at all.
If it’s not a lot of effort, why aren’t they already doing that?
This is a good thing. Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidenta... ”Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria. In one example, the account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We Th…
actually incredibly bullish for america. everybody wants to be american. nobody with agency is rooting for anything other than the US. seriously, if youre not topblasting the S&P, i dont know what to tell you. theres like the entire 2nd and 3rd world combined waiting for their paycheque to come in every month so they can spend it on the US. by 2100, we are gonna have a graveyard of langauges that nobody speaks anymor…
Not in Europe. I know personally several people who have moved here recently, and none who want to go the other direction. In fact there's been an uptick in the number of people who've told me they'd be reluctant to even visit the US.
Personally I'm not fussed, but I've definitely cooled on any plans I had to move back stateside.
I don't like the idea of linking VPN usage with something shady or illegal. Privacy is a human right, and knowing that I'm using a VPN or not doesn't change how "authentic" or truthful the post is.
Whatever right to privacy that may exist goes out the window when you’re posting on the World Wide Web.
This is a good thing. Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidenta... ”Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria. In one example, the account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We Th…
We've known this is a thing for quite some while. The Russians have been running a bunch of these propaganda accounts at least as far back as the 2016 election (see the Mueller report).
My account is a simple personal account with less than 3,000 followers. It does show a warning stating that I might be using a VPN. I do use AdGuard with the Mask IP setting set to a random number, and the DNS is set to Mullvad’s DNS.
This follows from the other changes made exposing fake/bot/scam X accounts created in different locations posing as "real" users. This just takes it into another level. Unrelated, but the amount of ads on Vice.com has become insufferable to the point where I cannot read the article without an ad-blocker with any default installed browser. If you don't want to switch to Firefox and are still using a Chromium-based bro…
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I just pointed to evidence this was happening several years before Elon had anything to do with Twitter takeover, all the way back when Obama was still in office.
The fact that it existed in some nonzero quantity at some point before the choreographed Musk takeover does not contradict what I wrote in any way.
Though it's worth noting this was happening under Prigozhin's lead, and since he's fallen out of a window now, it's unclear what's become of his troll factories.
This is a dick move, but let's not present VPNs add much in the way of privacy or security on average.
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Whatever right to privacy that may exist goes out the window when you’re posting on the World Wide Web.
On the contrary, the World Wide Web is anonymous by the default. The only reason we constantly need to login into places is because big corps want to have walls around their data... and full visibility on what we do online so they can sell it for a lot of money.
I don't like the idea of linking VPN usage with something shady or illegal. Privacy is a human right, and knowing that I'm using a VPN or not doesn't change how "authentic" or truthful the post is.
And I think that the Nazi-salute guy who runs Twitter is playing a game with this.