So.... unstable government with increasing internet censorship.
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025
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Right? Like “turns out it’s just…” implies that the U.S. isn’t 50 states in a trench coat where the federal government changing hands means there isn’t the constant major changing of policy every few years from center-right fence-sitters to chaotic-evil fascists and back again.
and back again
Except, this time, it can last decades.
Remember the 40 years of Progressive Democrats (like the FDR era) dominating politics? This could be like that, but reversed.
The Regressive Era
Has been since Reagan.
Since ~~Nixon~~ McCarty
Yeah... Nixon was flying a cessna while Reagan was strapping into an SR-71... No less culpable tho.
Back again? No. Center-right fence sitters do not move the status quo. They preserve it wherever it lands.
I mean fair but there are some positives, at least. Even the bad democrats will do, or at least not outright kill, some good stuff.
Well the trench coat...I was about to say a fairly recent addition but some states are younger than that. There was a time when we said "The United States are..." rather than 'The United States is..."
We are, after all, the world's oldest surviving Federation.
That’s really just the world getting used to it. The country may be a fucking disaster but it’s unlikely to see states coming in and out or being combined so they are, as far as anyone else needs to care, one unit. Nobody switched to “is” because of some idea of unity, it’s just because they don’t act separately on a federal level. Anyone with a braincell to spare knows that cooperation is a stranger to the States.
It’s a shitty “oldest fedration” that, frankly, as a Canadian I only know a lot about because every little piece of garbage it pumps out has a very nearly direct impact on my life in the form of a dogshit conservative culture that our own conservatives reproduce. I wish I could ignore that place, or maybe even enjoy its diversity of less toxic cultures and landscapes, but as it is I just hate the place and my familiarity with it is on a “know your enemy” basis. I could not give two flying shits about some white-washed “oldest federation” bullshit and am frankly insulted that even a small fraction of a part of you believes that I should care(the rest of you is fine though, I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way).
That rant got way out of hand, sorry, but I’m leaving it.
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Nothing like a little blue balls to kick start another civil war.
It is essentially internet censorship.
It is ~~essentially~~ internet censorship.
Now go find which members of Congress bought a bunch of VPN stock before these bans went into effect.
It just makes me think that neocons will come after vpns soon.
So many businesses use vpns in their day to day operations. There would be a huge push back from companies with money.
They'd just carve out an exception for corporations but ban private use.
If you vpn in to work from home, from you isp’s pov it looks the same as if you used a “private” vpn.
Not if your company has to register the IP address range of the VPN connections they use. ISPs could whitelist registered IP address ranges and block all other known VPN addresses.
Cat and mouse. Incoming Delaware LLC registrations for individuals qualifying them for IP whitelists.
They can try, we see how compliant the US was during Covid. Imagine that, but now the resistance is on both sides. VPN bans is gonna cause riots.
With the FCC unable to enforce net neutrality, they don't even have to ban VPNs. Just hide some legislation inside an unrelated bill to give $250M to internet providers on the condition that they throttle VPN connections to 100 Kbps*, which those greedy fucks will happily accept.
*Likely worded as a stipend to improve the infrastructure, but only as long as the infrastructure is not used to aid terrorism™.
¿Problem?
Both.
Same thing happened when Abbott started this whole thing in March of 2024
I wonder if they saw a surge when Disney raised their price twice in a year, or Prime started showing ads.
I know my ISP saw a spike in traffic from Switzerland to my house around the same time.
Weird.
For me it's the amount of traffic between my seedbox in the Netherlands and my home
Nice cover story for people living in fear of Musk's Presidency
...doesn't proton claim they don't analyse user data?
To do this graph you don’t have to have any user specific data. Just total amount of new accounts every day per country.
Yeah, but the "it's just porn, lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" conclusion?
Most likely conclusion due to porn sites having to restrict access from some conservative US states.
You can find that from the news. The recent change is that many of the big sites are blocking the southern states because they have enacted laws that would require getting IDs to verify age. The sites don't want to handle that PII.
Signup locations.
I guess that checks out.
... seems like both tbh.
They had a really good signup deal a few months ago: $75 for two years of service.
Love it.
Yeah porn isn't the most censored internet thing is it
"It's just porn"? What does that mean? Are people sending porn over email or something?
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Republican states have banned or blocked porn sites. People are using VPNs to bypass.
Oooh, I misread. Thanks.
Many US States have new laws that require porn sites to verify age and most porn sites don't want to make themselves a target for Cyber attacks (searching for identity documents) so they deny access to any IP address in the state with that law.
The vpn is just to Make it look like you're in a state that doesn't have these censorship laws
Are people sending porn over email or something?
I like to fax dick pics to land lines that decide to attach a fax machine to them.
Fax is like uhhhhh e-mail for rotary phones.
Probably saw a rise in sign ups from Canada and Brazil....thanks to RFDers who spotted deals that make the plus sub for 2 years for equivalent of 39 CAD
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