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POV: It's January 19th (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

Blah blah blah "we built our own great firewall and painted it red white and blue, and even banned the use of vpns to get to foreign sites which even China doesn't do. We're totally the good guys BTW."

Americans are so fucking stupid, oh my god.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

and even banned the use of vpns to get to foreign sites

Who is "we" in this context? VPNs are certainly not banned in the United States.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

as an American yeah, seeing this post is just depressing. like people are actively cheering a loss of internet freedom. the government doesn't care about bytedance or else capcut would have to go too. they care about controlling information, tiktok has been essential in issues like Palestine, even if I don't like the platform itself I can admit that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Also 100% clear that facebook, google, twitter... are all doing the same but for US intelligence

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

banned the use of vpns to get to foreign sites which even China doesn't do

What are you talking about? The GFC tries its absolute best to block VPNs and other circumvention methods.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

"Freedom is when you let foreign governments spy on your citizens"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

when exactly did that happen