• JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml
    1371·
    26 days ago

    The problem is that once it will be normal to request IDs for porn, the same will be extended to everything else with excuses like “let’s do it for the kids” or “if you don’t have anything to hide…”.

    VPNs… yeah sure, until there will be a crackdown on those too.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    851·
    26 days ago

    Parental controls: exist

    Law makers: But what if we made people submit really sensitive information instead of requiring websites to identify themselves as adult for the purpose of content filters?

  • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    26 days ago

    I’m all for VPN services, but I seem to recall some sketchy things about Proton in particular - anyone have any alternatives they like?

    • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      26 days ago

      As a new user of proton… Id like to hear what you think is sketchy. I haven’t heard anything negative.

            • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              25 days ago

              Okay, thanks for the context. I caught the initial blowup when I was looking at VPN options originally, but never heard any of the follow-up.

            • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              25 days ago

              Well, thanks for the context. I still hate the tweet. The tweet itself didn’t promote a specific nom – it promoted Republicans

              • jsomae@lemmy.ml
                2·
                25 days ago

                To steelman him for a sec – just as it’s good to call out your own team when they do something wrong, it’s also a virtue in many people’s minds to acknowledge when the other side does something good. You can say the rules are different if the other side are fascists and we just have to punch them, but (a) I don’t think that it was clear to everybody in the first weeks of Trump’s presidency exactly how fascist things were going to be (this was when he’d gotten ceasefires don’t forget) and (b) I still wouldn’t consider it a cancellable offence either way, even if it’s misguided liberal behaviour.

                Anyway, such behaviour tracks with being a liberal, and I’m not at the point yet where I’m wanting to cancel people for being liberals.

      • M137@lemmy.world
        51·
        25 days ago

        Really? It’s been widely reported. But Proton has spent a lot of time and money to get seen by users who wouldn’t have heard about the negative stuff. Even here on Lemmy the amount of pro-proton posts has gone up a lot since the bad stuff came out, it’s pretty blatant.

      • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        25 days ago

        Here’s what I was remembering; the Proton CEO had praise for some of the new Trump admin’s anti-trust statements last January, and seemed to support them more generally.

        What ended up happening with that? It looked like he tried to walk it back, and maybe didn’t intend for that to use the official Proton account?

    • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
      22·
      26 days ago

      Listen man. There are no non sketchy VPN there never has been there never ever will be. Period. All you can do is the least worst one and that is proton today. Might be someone else tomorrow. If anyone tries to tell you anything different they are a liar or ignorant.

  • MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com
    33·
    26 days ago

    For most of world history UK has kind of been among the worst countries in the world. They were committing atrocities in the name of preserving religious ideals before nazis were even a thing. Their leadership has been starving their citizens while the monarchy lives with lavish excess since before north korea ever existed. Committing war crimes used to be as commonplace back in the day as afternoon tea.

    How the UK somehow fell into public favor online seems like an anomaly to me. They got attacked during WW2 and then weren’t communists during the cold war. Big woop-de-doo. People usually speak highly of UK online but any time they’re in the news it’s because they’re doing something truly awful (recently moving towards establishing a regime of online censorship on par with that of China’s).

    I am shocked whenever I see people reacting to something shitty the UK is doing like its some kind of unprecedented unexpected event. They’ve been doing this type of shit for THE LAST THOUSAND YEARS. All I’m saying is they deserve A LOT more hate than they currently get.