Comment by nomilk
7 days ago
Can someone ELI5 how it actually works?
Say I'm a UK citizen with advanced glioblastoma (implying loss of faculties, seizures, and pain; no cure, and things to worsen before eventually passing away, possibly some time from now). Suppose I wish to view websites on euthanasia options, but am blocked from doing so by the UK's Online Safety Act.
How does/will Freedom.gov help? (is it essentially a free VPN?)
Also, as others have pointed out, couldn't the censoring government simply block access to freedom.gov?
According to Reuters, it will essentially be a free VPN.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-...
Free ... as in they'll spy on everything you do.
They already record as much global traffic as possible.
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So you're not paying for it? In corporate america how is that going to be moneytized?
it would be extremely naive to believe that certain corporations allied with the regime wouldn’t have complete, entire, total access to all of the traffic to feed their data collction.
VPNs are in no way secure. I'm sure they will be taking all your data and using it.
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It's a government program. The tax payer pays the service provider, a company owned by some government official's cousin. Monetization happened just before your employer paid you this week.
Money is the smallest concern here. It could easily replace the content with state-approved versions and the majority would never know, or at the least redirect to other sites/pages as needed. After all, it's being described as a 'portal' not a simple service.
Are you implying that paying does in any way reduce chance of your data being further monetized in the same way?
I'm sure Palantir will volunteer
Let the NSA deal with that…
You are the product
That may be pretty useful for torrenting, actually.
Oh they’re definitely going to be watching for that. You can have the propaganda but if you start stealing from rich people they’ll be after you.
So nothing new. We can just use cloudflare warp
Can people use it for sailing the high seas?
Free Trump VPN to go with one's Trump Phone?
can we use it for, erm, other 'freedoms' ?
And since euthanasia is not favoured by the religious right in the US (I assume here for sake of argument) it would be filtered by VPN / DNS anyway in the VPN
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I didn't expect "Trump does yet another symbolic, counterproductive stunt" to be the political hot take that ticked off the hive.