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Comment by gpt5

7 days ago

According to Reuters, it will essentially be a free VPN.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-...

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touristtam  7 days ago

So you're not paying for it? In corporate america how is that going to be moneytized?

  • toofy  7 days ago

    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.

  • EagnaIonat  7 days ago

    VPNs are in no way secure. I'm sure they will be taking all your data and using it.

    • cute_boi  6 days ago

      With end-to-end encryptions, https etc.., how can they collect any data besides IP addresses and SNI?

  • trimethylpurine  7 days ago

    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.

  • antonyh  6 days ago

    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.

  • account42  6 days ago

    Are you implying that paying does in any way reduce chance of your data being further monetized in the same way?

jeroenhd  7 days ago

That may be pretty useful for torrenting, actually.

  • badgersnake  7 days ago

    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.