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Can someone ELI5 how it actually works? Say I'm a UK citizen with advanced glioblastoma (implying loss of faculties, seizures, and pain; no cure, and things to
by nomilk 8mo ago
Can someone ELI5 how it actually works?
Say I'm a UK citizen with advanced glioblastoma (implying loss of faculties, seizures, and pain; no cure, and things to worsen before eventually passing away, possibly some time from now). Suppose I wish to view websites on euthanasia options, but am blocked from doing so by the UK's Online Safety Act.
How does/will Freedom.gov help? (is it essentially a free VPN?)
Also, as others have pointed out, couldn't the censoring government simply block access to freedom.gov?
- andrewflnr 8mo ago[flagged]
- andrewflnr 8mo agoI didn't expect "Trump does yet another symbolic, counterproductive stunt" to be the political hot take that ticked off the hive.
- gpt5 8mo agoAccording to Reuters, it will essentially be a free VPN. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-content-bans-europe-elsewhere-2026-02-18/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-...
- isodev 8mo agoFree Trump VPN to go with one's Trump Phone?
- touristtam 8mo agoSo you're not paying for it? In corporate america how is that going to be moneytized?
- EagnaIonat 8mo agoVPNs are in no way secure. I'm sure they will be taking all your data and using it.
- cute_boi 8mo agoWith end-to-end encryptions, https etc.., how can they collect any data besides IP addresses and SNI?
- HomeLabCrap 8mo agoLet the NSA deal with that…
- trimethylpurine 8mo agoIt's a government program. The tax payer pays the service provider, a company owned by some government official's cousin. Monetization happened just before your employer paid you this week.
- toofy 8mo agoit would be extremely naive to believe that certain corporations allied with the regime wouldn’t have complete, entire, total access to all of the traffic to feed their data collction.
- askl 8mo agoYou are the product
- mobiuscog 8mo agoI'm sure Palantir will volunteer
- account42 8mo agoAre you implying that paying does in any way reduce chance of your data being further monetized in the same way?
- antonyh 8mo agoMoney is the smallest concern here. It could easily replace the content with state-approved versions and the majority would never know, or at the least redirect to other sites/pages as needed. After all, it's being described as a 'portal' not a simple service.
- techterrier 8mo agocan we use it for, erm, other 'freedoms' ?
- jeroenhd 8mo agoThat may be pretty useful for torrenting, actually.
- badgersnake 8mo agoOh they’re definitely going to be watching for that. You can have the propaganda but if you start stealing from rich people they’ll be after you.
- shiroiuma 8mo agoCan people use it for sailing the high seas?
- tokenless 8mo agoFree ... as in they'll spy on everything you do.
- backscratches 8mo agoThey already record as much global traffic as possible.
- tokenless 8mo agoSure but now suckers probably using their DNS, or if not they still got a human name to IP / time / duration map.
- fbn79 8mo agoSo nothing new. We can just use cloudflare warp
- oaiey 8mo agoAnd since euthanasia is not favoured by the religious right in the US (I assume here for sake of argument) it would be filtered by VPN / DNS anyway in the VPN