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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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Intuitively yes, but it's possible that this is one of our biases speaking From my memory (might be mistaken) there have been attempts to somewhat study this via polls etc, and determined that coverage via propaganda (specifically Fox News) is less helpful then randomly guessing what actually happened... But ymmv, social studies are always hard to trust, because it's borderline impossible to prove cause and effect

People need to decide on their own, so I am against censorship.

In this thread, which comment gave you the impression they were in favor of censorship?

I hope it's not me, whom you responded to, because I cannot fathom how you could've gotten that impression considering my phrasing...what's up with this topic getting so many people with arguing via complete strawmen

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post #485

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Nope. People are certainly being arrested for speech (e.g. opinions) that would be protected by the first amendment in the US. Guising it under a scary sounding law doesn’t change the nature of it.

Examples please.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/14/transgender-...

[2] https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Scottow-...

”Margaret Dodd of one offence of improper use of a public communications network, contrary to section 127(2)(c) of the Communications Act 2003. This provides that a person commits an offence if “for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another [she] … persistently makes use of a public electronic network”.”

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/23/uk-police-le...

Regarding Graham Linehan who is by far the best example.

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

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post #556

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Nope. People are certainly being arrested for speech (e.g. opinions) that would be protected by the first amendment in the US. Guising it under a scary sounding law doesn’t change the nature of it.

People are certainly being arrested * in the USA * for speech (e.g. opinions) that are theoretically protected by the first amendment. Unfortunately, last I tried to look this up, I found that there simply do not exist useful and easy to find stats for "malicious communications" in the UK such that stalkers and people making death threats can be separated from mere political correctness. And even with actual death th…

It’s bad now and not perfect for sure, but I doubt these instances would be upheld by the higher courts.

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

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As someone who lives in North Carolina and can't even open most mainstream porn sites, I too am waiting for the freedom

Porn Sites? How about an interview with a politician on a late-nite network television show.

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

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Porn (now requires age verification), online libraries, movies, some news websites, sports (because of obscure copyright laws) and countless other things.

Ooooh, if freedom.gov helped bypass copyrights on sports and streaming websites, that would be fantastic!

True American freedom requires free NFL for all

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post #533

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That's also trivial to manipulate; control the narrative, and you control the Overton window. People picking the middle of two fake options are still under the influence of whoever chose those options — just ask any stage magician.

Narrative is controlled by censorship.

This was the old world. In our world narrative control is not by restrictions, but by abundance. Flood the zone writ large.

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

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post #388

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Worse, half-truths and half-lies.

That's why diversity of sources is the only way to escape censorship: you get one half truth from one source, another half truth from another source, then two halves make whole truth.

This assumes you have the cognitive resources to do that. Most people just switch to someone they trust to avoid exactly this. Matter of fact, that was the major advantage of the net back in the day.

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You don't have to worry about projecting truth. The truth gets through. This is about projecting lies.

> The truth gets through. It often doesn't at all, drowned amongst lies. And sometimes it takes a lifetime or two. It took Boris Yeltsin, who had just become the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union , actually visiting a random grocery store in Houston before he realised what the truth was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_visit_by_Boris_Yeltsin_to...

most common people were aware of the cliff in economy between capitalist and communist states. Hence we had so many revolution and communism lost.

This was a communist apparatchik. Its like showing truth to MAGA people. Most wont accept it.

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

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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…

"has been" => "had been" (since a few days ago)
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