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Not like good ole America where you can get arrested for mocking Charlie Kirk.
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How brainwashed do you have to be to come out with this?
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Kinda. It's a single-digit percentage of just the US and China, clustered with a lot of other countries of roughly the same size [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
Just to be clear you're saying only the top 2 countries by GDP are "economically relevant"?
I think they’re saying they used to be one of the big boys. Now they’re just a regular boy.
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Again, that's not what the law states. The law is not broken when someone is alarmed or distressed by a comment. The law is broken if you post something that is "likely or intending to" which is not judged by the victim. If you walk into a police station in England and tell them that this comment on Hacker News alarmed and distressed you, it doesn't matter, it is up to the legal system to judge my intent, i.e: whethe…
Wait so your saying he's actually correct? That's absolutely insane.
That's why UK does 12,000 arrests a year for online comments
https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-07-17/debates/F807C...
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NL VPNs will bend the knee to EU regulation
One click its Algeria, or Singapore, or Canada. We can move much faster then they can legislate.
First they came for the websites but I used vpns
Then they came for vpn clients but I used free software
Then they came for the payment methods but I used bitcoin
Then they blocked UDP at the isp but I used satelites doe linked elsewhere
Then they just came for me but nobody cared as nobody else was affected
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I suspect they'll be harder (impossible?) to block, but that will probably deter the casual user.
Russia is leading the pack in banning VPNs, and they're, surprisingly, getting pretty good at it. They caught my naive attempts at trying to use Tailscale, WireGuard and OpenVPN immediately. People in government are laughing at the populace struggling to bypass their whitelists, blocks and slowdowns, directly saying that "you can have your VPN, it just won't work, and you will never access anything beyond our Russian…
Just install 3x-ui or Remnawave and spend some time configuring them for security.
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Oddly that's Zuck doing that. And weirdly, the law would only apply to app stores. I think that's a separate movement from what the UK is doing though. That US law is designed to hamstring Meta's competition not restrict political speech but it can be abused the same way I think.
There is no "US law" there are 45+ pending or passed pieces of state legislation, along with the federal Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) that's yet to be passed.
The PACs that push the one specific law you're talking about also push laws in other states, and federally, that are very, very different and draconian.
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It's deliberate isolationism, the same isolationism that drove Brexit
There are two kinds of "isolationism". In the first, the person becomes a hermit refusing to interact with anyone. In the second, a cult grabs hold of the person and isolates them from their families and loved ones so they can brainfuck them. And, I suspect this has happened to the UK. England doesn't want to be a land for the English, because to do so would make them racist. They have strength in their diversity. Bl…
Don't mistake Brits' general disinterest in engaging with foreigners whose perspective on the UK begins and ends with lecturing us on "England for the English" with us not being able to talk with anybody else...
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Just to be clear you're saying only the top 2 countries by GDP are "economically relevant"?
I think they’re saying they used to be one of the big boys. Now they’re just a regular boy.
When was the UK last in the top 2 countries globally by GDP? Certainly pre-WW2?
They're still in the same cluster of countries by GDP as the #3 country so falling from #4 to #6 doesn't look so drastic.
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Ofcom could do it too if they had like 25 aircraft carriers and 2 of the 3 largest air forces on the planet, the best intel network, the most advanced tools, the backing of a $25T economy, the…
Might makes right I guess.
That has been true throughout history.
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The Parisian bars are the ones writing the address on the package not the courier.
When DoorDash or whatever courier comes to a restaurant, they pick up “order number”. That order number is in essence just private IP. Courier translates it to address=public ip. It follows that the restaurant writes the address on every delivery. Do they ID each recipient?
In the original example the Parisian bars sells and sends the alcohol.
You’ve modified that to introduce a proxy, DoorDash, that now sells and sends the alcohol. If DoorDash sells it they’re the ones in trouble in your example.