"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"

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    I wonder if this is the death knell for vpns.

    Going to obtain better information security by abolishing the most well-established method for safe data transfer? Uh... good luck.

    All Biden and the dems to do is lie and barf up nonsense like lies that vpns need to be banned due to “national security”. And if more juice is needed - they lie more. Tiktok something-something Chinese military. And we must ban vpns to stop child pornography. None of the “tech” stuff need be explained and the media will play along.

    We can't just "ban vpns". That's not any kind of practical solution. We made a big whiny noise about TikTok until it fell off the public radar, which suggests that this was more about doing a series of photo-ops than changing public policy. And of all the ways to combat child pornography...

    To quote Alice Coldwall-Kelly's critique of the British Parliament, "The only thing we can talk about doing is the impossible".