Still don’t understand wtf do you want people to do with Tor if Tor itself gets blocked (yes, their obfuscation methods are also very trivial to block), not to mention the reality of some countries not allowing any cross border traffic.

If you observed anything the right wingers did in the last few years, you’d know they already are doing that themselves. Vance literally wore his South Park baby face photoshop for Halloween. They are perfectly ok with everything you listed, in fact they believe it’s a huge own that it bothers you and they get away with it. Trump said he could shoot anyone in the middle of the street and not lose any votes the first time around, this time he could literally nuke the US and still keep his voters.

Unless there’s also a flawless system that can decide what is and isn’t AI generated, it will just be used to shut down anything anti government, while keeping pro government slop up. The way EU did it sounds better, but could still be abused in the same manner - just take down anything the government doesn’t like and say it was because they didn’t label it as AI generated, have fun going through the court system trying to prove it wasn’t.

Don’t recommend Mullvad Browser to people who just want a regular daily driver browser unless you want them to freak out and never try anything again.

To anyone uniformed - Mullvad Browser, while technically Firefox based, is actually a fork of Tor, and by default wipes everything on exit, as well as expects users not to tinker with it or install any addons to avoid fingerprinting.

Steam lets publishers include Steam keys if they don’t sell them for cheaper than on Steam.

Then how come official retailers like GMG are consistently able to sell Steam keys at 10% discount for nearly every new AAA release on launch?

Except the way it’s done means everyone on the internet is by default a child, including the pedophiles. There isn’t a single purpose for the age checks, it’s useful for (wannabe) authoritarians, its profitable for the companies, it’s convenient for child abusers, it’s data galore for 3 letter agencies etc. The current big wave of it is known to be sponsored by the american megacorpos, so pretty much all the reasons apply.

See you in a year or 2.

Play as old as times:

1. Company announces garbage change
2. People freak out
3. Company says ok we will only do half of the garbage
4. People calm down and forget
5. Company later does the rest of the garbage
6. Nobody cares because half of it is already there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3fSnHTJdR0

Would that even help? Windows malware can run on Linux precisely thanks to Wine and Proton.

All the attachments, though… man this is going to be such a pain :/

Lol. Your mom is accused of handing over your intimate personal information to your dad and grandma.

Iran has switched to intranet and isn’t looking back. They now started selling foreign traffic at ridiculous prices and only to licensed companies, not consumers. Naturally, this created a black market with even more exorbitant prices, but that isn’t really a concern when it stops quite literally 99% of the traffic from reaching outside, and russia has already been planning to cut off foreign traffic as a whole in a similar fashion, except for now they are proposing that ISPs should provide the “internet+” plan to the regular users as well.

All this to say - they aren’t saying “oh well, we can’t block VPNs anyway, so we give up”, they are justifying the upcoming internet blackout, with the best case scenario where ISPs can provide much more expensive plans for foreign traffic. Not a lot of people are going to have the finances and ability to go through the trouble of paying for the internet access, foreign traffic and a bleeding edge VPN to access youtube.

Also lol @ him claiming internet censorship and restricting freedom of speech are different things, when a state newspaper recently published an article claiming that the iranian internet blackout is a massive attack on human rights and might lead to the end of the regime (check out Steve Rosenberg on YT if you are curious).

I wish there was a program where we could fully sponsor their resettlement to nk/iran/whatever is their favourite flavour of authoritarianism.

And in the US you must list all ingredients and all contents of those ingredients, as well as any and all additives (like extra iron, vitamins and so on, even if those come from “natural” sources). You can’t just say potato, salt, oil, you have to say:

Doesn’t mean you get different shit, just means they scrutinize it a lot more in the US. There are small differences here and there with stuff like food colouring, but you are not getting “just 3 ingredients in the EU and 99 in the US”, that’s just a bullshit grifter line being repeated by people who didn’t bother to actually read.

You can choose to reject it, which is what my Google Phone app does by default when I block a number, or accept it to instantly hang up. I just chose the reject option, most calls stopped completely after a couple of weeks. I do not use voicemail, so not sure how it interacts with that. The app also has an option for a subscription (as in you just insert a link) to an ever updating list of spam numbers, but I just went with not my contact = no business calling me.

Get a new phone number and ONLY share with those who needed it for emergencies.

Not a bad advice, but depending on where you are that might not do anything. I bought a new SIM recently and it was getting spam calls before I even added a single contact. Slapped SpamBlocker from F-Droid on it immediately.

Theoretically - yes there will be some loophole to do some stuff online. Something tells me people don’t exactly want to pay for gigabit connections and then be forced to tunnel through kilobit loopholes. Look at north korea to see the end goal, look at iran to see phase 3, look at russia to see phase 2, you are currently in phase 1 of the plan to isolate the internet.

Tor also has been banned in authoritarian shitholes for ages. New bridge IPs pop up and get banned daily. Good luck getting a working bridge in the first place, too.

Cloudflare and recaptcha are the best ads for Anubis.

Depends just how willing you are: demand domestic websites block any non residential IPs and report any attempted or even successful VPS connections, allow only registered businesses to operate VPNs, use government shipped mobile apps to detect people’s network configs/installed apps/private and public IPs, block any known VPN IP ranges, use DPI to block VPN protocols and detect unusual traffic, allow access only to a select list of domains and IP addresses, etc. There’s a myriad of ways to enforce this, but in the US they will need a few years to set up the hardware necessary to do it, that’s the one thing the US has going for it. Sleep on it, though? You will wake up to intranet in 10 years.

The title is overly optimistic imo. This is more of a life support system for a comatose patient. The work done is great and keeps some people informed and provided with at least some international news and tools, but this is far from defeating the internet blackout.

I’m also somewhat surprised iran isn’t shooting down the satellites. The article mentions previous full jamming practices were stopped in fear of sanctions, but not like that’s a concern anymore, especially considering iran is in russia’s little fascist club.

To the people living in the rest of the world - start taking ID verification threat seriously before this is your reality where the only outside news you get is from a USB stick you buy on a shady open market for 30 bucks from a guy who has a satellite dish out in the mountains.