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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 proctorg76 »

joe_mamba wrote: post #650
generic92034 wrote: post #402

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That was a overall very rarely occurring abuse of power of a politician in charge of leading local law enforcement. It was declared illegal later. And you take that as a proof for what about the whole of Germany?

>It was declared illegal later. You're missing the point. That's exactly how democratic governments cloak fascist behavior everywhere: The punishment IS THE PROCESS. People in Germany (and the UK and other places) have to self censor because they don't want to be visited by the police and then dragged through courts for months/years, even though it eventually gets thrown out and you get to walk away innocent, you sti…

We have a name for this, "You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride"

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

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Post by dopa42365 »

kjksf wrote: post #509
Helmut10001 wrote: post #492

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This is somewhat counterintuitive: The US is the only country I know where most newspapers and government services use strict geoblocks to prevent me from accessing US sites in Europe. Conversely, I've never had any problems accessing European sites from the US. I know this is for a different set of reasons (likely GDPR cookie law or similar), but it's funny that anyone thinks blocks like this are relevant. Most peop…

Which US newspapers and which governments websites? I happen to write this from Poland and I don't recall a single newspaper being geo blocked here. Not nyt, not washington post not anything I've ever accessed. And didn't see US gov website geo blocked either. So I ask again: which newspapers and which gov websites?

https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/GDPR%2...

That's a good start (might not be 100% up-to-date, but vast majority of them are still 451 blocked).

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

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Post by dirasieb »

phatfish wrote: post #695
selfmodruntime wrote: post #661

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> 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.

how about the ~12k arrests per year for social media posts? are you able to discuss a bit of that with your busy work schedule?

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

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Post by reliabilityguy »

Sharlin wrote: post #706
reliabilityguy wrote: post #699

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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?

Sure, if that’s your problem with my comment, feel free to rephrase it in your mind to something like "to promote fringe-right and anti-immigration parties and movements that any sane observer recognizes as authoritarian and racist because they’re not even bothering to dogwhistle". If you need a source for that you haven’t been following the news.

> not even bothering to dogwhistle

So, basically, you are saying that they are openly racist?

Is there any evidence of this?

> If you need a source for that you haven’t been following the news.

Nice deflection. You are the one making outlandish claims, so the proof is on you and not the “news” that someone is supposed to follow.

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

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Post by bluescrn »

dirasieb wrote: post #511
dgxyz wrote: post #471

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It's not a hoax , it's a straight up lie .

https://archive.ph/bdEqK >>Police make 30 arrests a day for offensive online messages >The police are making more than 30 arrests a day over offensive posts on social media and other platforms. >Thousands of people are being detained and questioned for sending messages that cause “annoyance”, “inconvenience” or “anxiety” to others via the internet, telephone or mail. >Custody data obtained by The Times shows that off…

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

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Post by vel0city »

reliabilityguy wrote: post #699
Sharlin wrote: post #619

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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?

Trump's Truth Social feed? The Vice President spreading racist lies about Hatians eating neighbor's pets on national television?

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

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Post by subpixel »

joenot443 wrote: post #712
duckerduck wrote: post #630

Maybe the EU can open a book portal for the US. https://pen.org/report/the-normalization-of-book-banning/

The whole book banning thing is a little weird in 2026, IMO. It's exciting to think about, we all liked Fahrenheit 451, but a book not being bought for elementary schools doesn't really make it "banned" IMO. There are a lot of books which probably shouldn't be in schools. I don't think children should be given copies of Mein Kampf or Camp of Saints, nor the random dark fantasy novels which are so popular today. It fe…

As a parent, I believe there is no book that should be banned from being used by a teacher for instruction. I have the responsibility of ensuring that the school my child attends employs teachers who I trust to make effective and age-appropriate curriculum decisions.

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Post by Noaidi »

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…

But will it let me torrent? /s

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

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Post by [deleted] »

mortarion wrote: post #639
kjksf wrote: post #563

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Yes, we can. But that's not what "hate speech" is code word for. At this point in time any opinion to the right of extreme leftist ideology is considered by said leftist to be "hate speech". Examples of "hate speech": criticism of muslims (but jews are ok), or minorities, or men playing in women's sport or breast amputation of 15yr olds, or immigration. Nick investigating Somali fraud is racist and hateful. The "hate…

Countries in Europe (and most of the world) have positive constitutions, which defines what the government "must do" (for its citizens), whilst the USA has a negative constitution that defines what the government "cannot do" (against its citizens). What constitutes hate speech is carefully defined in the constitutions of EU countries. Politicians can't just amend or extend the definition at will, except in the UK whi…

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