"Can the government PLEASE make sure that the only information journalists are allowed to receive is whatever the White House press statements say? THANK YOU GOVERNMENT"

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Expectation: there will be a carveout for US companies using vpns

      Reality: the language will be so broad that a bunch of protocols and networking equipment is technically illegal

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah, my thought was if there are any parts of the lower level networking that arguably acts similarly to a vpn. Like it would be extremely funny if everyone's router suddenly became illegal.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      The proposed Tiktok legislation shocked the hell out of me. I know what some democrats are so fucking stupid that they actually fear any "advanced" tech like vpns because of China/Russia/Iran/etc Cold War 2.0 hysteria. But also I assume that a bunch of dem senators hope to get some entertainment-related sinecures after they leave congress. The Recording Industry Association of America will piss itself laughing if anti-vpn legislation were to pass.

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      An aside - My favorite go-to online grocery shopping sites makes me do two things to use it. Use Chrome. It only works smoothly with Chrome. And I must disable my vpn.

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          It's funny what sites block my vpn. A couple of small guitar forums do. I guess whoever manages the sites is worried about Ddos attack. Or a more colorful story would be an insane asshole kept spamming the sites via vpns. I always wonder what's happening behind the scenes.

          There's a insane asshole spammer at chess.com. He was clogging up chats with huge copy and pastes. The site blocked copy and paste for everybody. I find that super-annoying. But then he was back - again somehow spamming the huge copy and pastes. I wonder how. And then he was gone. But then he came back yet again and he somehow figured out to break the "ignore" function. If you ignore him - it doesn't matter - you still see his huge copy and paste spam.

          The site must have the most inept programmers ever. I've never even heard of that for a site people pay for with their credit cards. Does anybody there have any idea what they're doing? It certainly was one reason I decided to stick with a free account. I'm not giving them my credit card number.

            • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              Ah.

              I had a tricky question to ask so I wrote out the 50 words in a text editor to pop into the chat area and then I learned that the site intentionally broke copy and paste.