Take this with a grain of salt, I am by no means qualified to say anything on this topic with total certainty.

All a VPN does is encrypt traffic between you and the VPN. The VPN Hub you’re connected to has to unencrypted your outbound traffic, fulfilling those requests, and then encrypting inbound traffic back to you. A VPN obscures traffic by allowing you to make your requests from a different location, where thousands of others also do it, all while hiding who is making any requests it fulfills, and hiding your activity from your ISP with encryption. A good VPN will also not keep logs of anything it does, and will have options to connect to Hubs outside of five eyes countries.

This would mean that while the VPN might not know who is making what requests, they would know what those requests are, so they could blacklist illegal content. All this to say a VPN >VPN >VPN > VPN still has a final VPN that has to make the request, and they will know where the request is going and what its for. But unless that final VPN company or Hub is actually inside of Italy they have no jurisdiction.

The real problem with this method is A) who determines what is blacklisted B) How do you enforce this blacklist C) How do you make the blacklist grow as fast as pirates spread out. This is a stupid law that wouldn’t do anything even if the entire world got on board.

Looking at their github and they havnt merged a PR since October. Feels a like it might be dead.

Looking at their github and they havnt merged a PR since October. Feels a like it might be dead.

Don’t worry, our choice for each election is capitalism and cruelty free capitalism, it’s always been a matter of time.

It will always be the case that given enough time a capitalist will find a way to convince the public to vote against self interest just a little, and then the snowball starts rolling.

near total lack of moderation

Disagree. Social media is built to favor creating and then selling huge name influencers to your users, and because you cannot become a large influencer/streamer/w/e without essentially being uncritical about the world, or being critical in a way that swings completely to 1 side of the aisle. This is in itself a form of moderation that only ever allows some critical voices to succeed, but only if their critique furthers the divide among the working class.

There is nothing you can/could do. The endless war against intelligence and focus on just believing what some screaming asshole says on talk radio, combined with the dawn of the internet being weaponized to spread that brain rot, and here you go. Maybe if you can go back in time and murder Ronald Reagan before capitalism gets so out of hand that they can buy the government ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hmm, well when u get a new card u can toss the old one into another computer.

Or you can use any vid card since 07 with a display port to HDMI 2.1 adapter

one day my 2006 42" sony bravia is going to die. I will be very sad I have to by some new age bullshit, but at the very least ill be happy I dont have to deal with their spyware posing as convenience when the TV is permanently set to input 1 lol.

…thinking about it, maybe I should buy a new TV now, just incase the TV’s 5 years from now dont allow you to play from a physical input connection. Like a preemptive move in the endless game of enshitification chicken were all playing with companies.

Use an old computer. Get a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse controller. I have only ever had my TVs run by computer since I the mid 2000s. fuck smart TVs what a shit show.

If I don’t know, am I not allowed to know now?

I follow updates on their policies. Its entirely culture war, using protecting children as an excuse to target and oppress minority groups that the vast majority of GOP voters have not and will never interact with in real life. And using that as camouflage they gut any institution they can to shrink the government in an effort to divert more of that money into their donors through government purchases.

And the Dem’s just use the same tired ole “At least we don’t target minorities” as their entire campaign, because they are incapable of following through with any of the possibly meaningful changes they campaign on because anything Dem voters truly want is not allowed in our pay to win system of government.

Hitching your wagon to either is how you become a sheep that is guided by the system of pitting us against each other, evaluate choices each election, you will learn real quick both parties sell the country to the highest bidder and do nothing to protect the people, both sides only enact token gestures of protection that do nothing to help our endless growing list of systemic problems, and are made purely to do the bare minimum to satisfy voters so they will stay divided into two camps that hate each other and continue to vote on wedge issues instead of demanding the change we need.

You even automatically assumed that because i spoke about the poor education of the voting public I was talking about GOP specifically, which immediately made you feel defensive. This is exactly how we stay divided, we continue to villainize the voters and leaders of the other side, which ensures whenever we learn from each other because we are playing defense, which is proven to make sure we cant learn from each other. All this to prevent us from joining together and demanding the government do literally anything at all to stop this system that pushes the general population closer and closer to poverty just to allow the richest people in the world to become even richer.

If ever a time comes where the people put aside wedge issues and focus on the betterment of the citizens the country will begin to rapidly improve, but sadly as i said in my first comment, we are a weak willed unresearched and uneducated population that is too easily tricked into playing a game about identity politics, while the real game being played is to keep us so focused on wedge issues that we dont notice them going through our pockets and stealing the copper out of our walls.

Because an angry and stupid population votes GOP.

It’s simple really. People vote on culture war issues, and respect posture more than reason, we are a weak species that is easily manipulated, moreso when you gut education.

In the long term is will fuck over their ability to hack stuff. You’re essentially ruining people’s ability to develop talent at tech. Even if u want to train them in it as military, it would be new to them.

If the shareholders are Hitler goebles etc, ceos are high ranking generals, ss leaders, etc. it’s fair game .but agreed, target selection could be improved.

So If i am understanding correctly. You want to use bots to spread propaganda to influence politics? The problem is that congress is going to vote how their donors tell them to vote, they don’t give a fuck what their voter base wants. You would also be competing against exactly what you are suggesting, giant capitalist media companies, and bot armies from hostile nation states. You just cant compete with their resources in spreading propaganda.

How can they get elected? If the party is in the actual interest of American society then all of the money will be stacked up in opposition to them.

Yeah I know what I said, as I was the one who said it, but since subtlety is clearly lost on you… Corruption through capitalist money has captured the government. Nothing is going to change in America without a revolution, otherwise we will continue to barrel fullsteam towards global financial collapse, or world war. If you’re interested please shoot me any way you think the system can be fixed without some sort of large violent upheaval and ill described 3 ways in which the system is already securely rigged against it. Ill give you reason #1 as a freebie since it applies to any route you may suggest: they have become way too good at pitting us against each other over wedge issues about shit that doesn’t affect us, so we just accept voting for things based on social issues, and as such we can never vote on real issues.

Stop thinking about con vs lib, that’s step 1. Its the 99 against the 1. The more you discuss liberal this, conservative that, the more divided we are, the less we can actually affect change.

It always cracks me up how the passive aggressive person saying “lets just give up then!” when one roadblock in a plan is pointed out, is generally the only person giving up. Oh no, the idea I wanted doesn’t work, guess were all out of options.