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Starlink is refusing to comply with Brazil's X ban (Update: Starlink will comply) (www.engadget.com)

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Controlled by governments or controlled by corpos and the super rich? I say there's hardly an improvement.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, cables or radio waves, it's the same thing in the end.

What we need (IMO) is another layer on top if the classic internet with encryption and hookers.

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[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Like i2p or TOR?

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago*

Or Tenfingers (my network protocol for decentralised web pages and data) ofc 😌

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[–] rkeene@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 2 years ago

This is what IPSec OE was created to solve, but nobody uses it -- instead using things like TLS, which also provides protocol aware non-repudiation.

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[–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

No, but through the existence of both options, you can get more plurality than by using one individual option.

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

If we're talking about corporations I can only assume you mean options in how to get fucked.

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[–] OccamsRazer@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Government can throw you in jail.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Corporate throws you on the street to starve.

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[–] OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

They tried that with me once, but I showed them and got a different job.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 years ago

You got another one job at the the other starlink?

There's a reason the system requires a certain percentage of unemployment to keep working. There's also a reason there's homeless people and children living in flood security.

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

Have you heard about this corporation called the church of Latter Day Saints?

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