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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 TacticalCoder »

guerrilla wrote: post #612
kjksf wrote: post #584

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There has never been a leftist government in the US. You seem a bit lost.

> There has never been a leftist government in the US. You seem a bit lost.

I'll give you three examples of the dems sliding left.

Biden did make sure all the borders were wide open and american forklifts, operated by americans, have been used to facilitate the mass migration of millions and millions of non-US citizens into the US.

Under the same government there have been politicians passing laws so that there'd be tampons in men's restrooms.

And you now have a mayor in NYC explaining publicly, to americans on US soil, that it's time to "look at the life of the prophet Muhammad" (I encourage everyone to go and buy a quran and go read it to actually learn about the muhammad but this may make want you to switch from democrat to republican).

I understand that people who vote democrats don't want to be called leftists but I don't think anyone disputes that dems have been slanting towards the left more and more.

Democrats having no issues with a politician lecturing them as to how they should look at the life of the prophet of islam makes me think something serious is going on.

I'm not sure who is lost here.

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

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Post by iso1631 »

Waterluvian wrote: post #41
schoen wrote: post #38

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…

It’s a clear way to project soft power: make sure your message and culture can get through.

Yet the US president unilaterally shut down Voice of America because he didn't like its message

Freedom of speech for me, not for thee

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

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Post by ch4s3 »

GoblinSlayer wrote: post #558
ch4s3 wrote: post #486

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> If they didn't have a hand in the protests, that seems like a stunning failure on the part of the US State Department to support their own policies This is nothing but evidence free speculation. What you’re doing is undermining the validity of the protest movement and parroting the line of the Iranian government. It’s disgusting. Take this shit somewhere else.

You say it as if influencers are something bad. If they spread democracy, why would they be bad?

No my point is that the idea that the protests aren’t organic is deeply fucking ignorant and gross. It’s this whole line of thinking that everything turns on US action in the world, which is how 19 year olds think after they read Howard Zin or some essay by Chomsky for the first time. It’s unserious on top of robbing a lot of brave people of their own agency.

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

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Post by ben_w »

Argonaut998 wrote: post #583
ben_w wrote: post #556

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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.

Kinda irrelevant, given that the go-to examples I see on Hacker News of this happening in the EU and UK are either actual death/violence threats etc. (which are also not protected speech in the USA) or also not upheld in higher European courts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

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

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Post by phatfish »

selfmodruntime wrote: post #661
phatfish wrote: post #606

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Thanks for your input on UK society. FWIW, despite the coordinated attacks we are doing just fine. If you live your life through social media it might look like we are one step from North Korea though.

> FWIW, despite the coordinated attacks we are doing just fine. What a sad handwaive of the current state of affairs

Is there something specific you would like to discuss? Preferably not a copy and paste "info" dump like the parent that is designed to be difficult to respond to unless someone is unemployed or an LLM.

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

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Post by thevillagechief »

Sharlin wrote: post #619
pasc1878 wrote: post #435

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But part of Agency has just been defunded https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/us-funding-for...

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This is fine. If successful, the next administration can just leverage it for a different kind of agenda. In fact, by the time we know whether it's successful, this admin will likely be gone. I'm a bit conflicted though. I hated the last admin's censorship efforts for wrong think. Now, looking at the online discourse landscape, I'm starting to think we might have thrown out the baby with the birth water. Why can't we just be normal!

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Post by iso1631 »

reactordev wrote: post #187
Aurornis wrote: post #173

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Just minutes ago you said this: > Almost 80% of communications go through a data center in Northern VA Where are you getting this new 200 numbers? Share a source please.

One of… Ashburn, VA is the data center capital of the world. When you type and hit submit, even on this site, your data will hit one of those data centers. The few exceptions are government networks and China.

So you're saying my french ISP tunnels all traffic from my hotel to my office through to America?

Or are you saying that the NSA has a hidden tap on the equipment without my ISP knowing. How does that traffic get from the ISP router to the NSA?

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Post by reliabilityguy »

Sharlin wrote: post #619
pasc1878 wrote: post #435

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But part of Agency has just been defunded https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/us-funding-for...

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> very explicitly stated goals of sowing discord within the US's former "allies", to weaken Europe, and to promote racist and fringe-right views.

The US government explicitly said that they seek to promote racist and fringe-right views? Do you have any sort of evidence to back it up?

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

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Post by ben_w »

snowpid wrote: post #589
ben_w wrote: post #520

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> 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.

> Its like showing truth to MAGA people. Most wont accept it.

Could be. That was the other example I was considering using besides Yeltsin, but I figured it would immediately get met with "no u" responses from those who, as you say, won't accept it. That makes for boring conversations where I learn nothing.

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