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According 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/

by gpt5 8mo ago

According 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 ago
Free Trump VPN to go with one's Trump Phone?
touristtam 8mo ago
So you're not paying for it? In corporate america how is that going to be moneytized?
- EagnaIonat 8mo ago
  VPNs are in no way secure. I'm sure they will be taking all your data and using it.
  - cute_boi 8mo ago
    With end-to-end encryptions, https etc.., how can they collect any data besides IP addresses and SNI?
- HomeLabCrap 8mo ago
  Let the NSA deal with that…
- trimethylpurine 8mo ago
  It'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 ago
  it 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 ago
  You are the product
- mobiuscog 8mo ago
  I'm sure Palantir will volunteer
- account42 8mo ago
  Are you implying that paying does in any way reduce chance of your data being further monetized in the same way?
- antonyh 8mo ago
  Money 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 ago
can we use it for, erm, other 'freedoms' ?
jeroenhd 8mo ago
That may be pretty useful for torrenting, actually.
- badgersnake 8mo ago
  Oh 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 ago
Can people use it for sailing the high seas?
tokenless 8mo ago
Free ... as in they'll spy on everything you do.
- backscratches 8mo ago
  They already record as much global traffic as possible.
  - tokenless 8mo ago
    Sure but now suckers probably using their DNS, or if not they still got a human name to IP / time / duration map.
fbn79 8mo ago
So nothing new. We can just use cloudflare warp

by gpt5 8mo ago

isodev 8mo ago

Free Trump VPN to go with one's Trump Phone?

touristtam 8mo ago

So you're not paying for it? In corporate america how is that going to be moneytized?

EagnaIonat 8mo ago
VPNs are in no way secure. I'm sure they will be taking all your data and using it.
- cute_boi 8mo ago
  With end-to-end encryptions, https etc.., how can they collect any data besides IP addresses and SNI?
HomeLabCrap 8mo ago
Let the NSA deal with that…
trimethylpurine 8mo ago
It'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 ago
it 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 ago
You are the product
mobiuscog 8mo ago
I'm sure Palantir will volunteer
account42 8mo ago
Are you implying that paying does in any way reduce chance of your data being further monetized in the same way?
antonyh 8mo ago
Money 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 ago

can we use it for, erm, other 'freedoms' ?

jeroenhd 8mo ago

That may be pretty useful for torrenting, actually.

badgersnake 8mo ago
Oh 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 ago

Can people use it for sailing the high seas?

tokenless 8mo ago

Free ... as in they'll spy on everything you do.

backscratches 8mo ago
They already record as much global traffic as possible.
- tokenless 8mo ago
  Sure but now suckers probably using their DNS, or if not they still got a human name to IP / time / duration map.

fbn79 8mo ago

So nothing new. We can just use cloudflare warp