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Here come more spikes in VPN usage.
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025
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Someday, we will be using AI to generate fake IDs and faces, simply because our governments refuse to respect our privacy. They will have uncanny resemblance to political critters who enacted the surveillance.
As with everything born of enshittification, I do not know if this is to be a lame joke or reality. 😒
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It's probably the FREE STATES OF FREEDOM STATES!
But in other news, VPNs are now really popular for some reason.
Freedom! Fuck yeah!
bless their repressed hearts
Haha not if you use a VPN or international websites or pirate that shit.
they are going after vpn next, there are several states talking about that. Considering that microsoft is working on their super ai windows, we can bet they are gonna be reporting everything you do to big brother.
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When I read about this I'm always brought back to the conversation of "internet as a public utility". I hope it's cool if we can take a tangent.
See unlike any of our other utilities like natural gas electricity water and sewage, the only thing that could potentially give any meaningful information about us is our sewage,, and the government already tests sewage for diseases. If we allow the government to "sell" us our internet they would basically be able to know everyone we are "talking too". Also how could we ever have enough regulatory oversight to protect everyone on the internet. Symmetrically if the government wants to have so much regulatory control over our internet it should maybe pay for it.
Like I wouldn't mind even paying another 50 bucks a month extra for "private internet" just so the government can have their free and regulated "public internet". Or would I (・–・)ゞ?
Every benefit goes to providers, we get higher bills and they get subsidies
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Maybe they think they're requiring verification, but they underestimate the Internet
And on the flip side, occasional SEO fuckups cause random terms to show porn image results
For example, I was searching for millimetre wave cell towers on duckduckgo a while back, I typed "MM wave cell tower" and saw a whole bunch of massive tiddies on the standard filtering setting. They fixed this a week after me discovering it however, so if you were hoping to see tits from searching telco infrastructure, I suppose you're outa luck.
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NoFx - "Vanilla Sex" hits hard after all these years
That's because more than half of the country is some combination of evil and/or retarded.
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Only websites hosted by landlubbers are bound by such laws.