Well it's a good thing that the post does not say "bad at reading" then, isn't it

It isn't spelled out because it is not a logical conclusion at all. Nothing in this test requires critical thinking to achieve.

Why are you defending an obviously terribly written article?

Exactly, that is why authoritarian countries trying to exert absolute control on their internet are still failing!

There is even a category of VPN providers who (directly) collect absolutely no information from you and accept all kind of payment methods, some not traceable or at the very least not blockable. So even if they do respond to government requests... They have nothing to give.

Controlling the internet is a very delicate task and that's why laws are always tiptoeing around it. There is a sweet spot where you control just enough without inciting people to go pay shady services that you have zero control over

There are hundreds of VPN providers. People looking to circumvent bans where VPNs are banned are not using mainstream providers. It's only enforceable if the VPN company is in a country that will care to enforce your ban. Most of them are not.

I don't know how it is done on the US, but it'll always be samples, of course. Which does not make it a useless result at all, statistics on a population sample can be true for the full population if the sample is well done.

Typically polling agencies will not pick people at random to answer their questions. There is always criteria they respect to have a valid sample. It is of course not an exact science, but done properly and transparently (that's where I don't know if the US does it right) it is very powerful.

Although to be honest, do you know any government that is honest? It's all PR.

Problem is the e2e encryption. The bridge basically decrypts your emails and makes them locally accessible.

It is technically impossible at the moment to keep your emails end-to-end encrypted and not have to use a bridge for your client of choice. It will only be possible if your client of choice partners with Proton to integrate them, or if a standard for e2e encrypted emails pops up and both Proton and your client adopt it.

I disagree, I don't think it should be that way. And it doesn't make it any less democratic, what we have is literally how most parliamentary democracies work.

I'm sure. So?

I'm just confused as to how that is not common knowledge. The country I speak of is France, and we're not exactly known for our excellent maths education.

No, it should simply be "Parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, addition."

A division is defined as a multiplication, and a substraction is defined as an addition.

I am so confused everytime I see people arguing about this, as this is basic real number arithmetics that every kid in my country learns at 12 yo, when moving on from the simplified version you learn in elementary school.