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Hello guys and gals, meahar and ladies
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and gentlemen, we have got to talk about
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this crazy censorship problem that we
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are dealing with now. The last uh I want
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to say like several days, weeks, it
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almost feels like there's a concerted
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effort with every single large entity
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trying to censor everything they can on
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the internet. We've seen Steam to take
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away a bunch of Gooner games, which
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granted, you know, were on the fringe
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end of people caring, but then you start
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to see it. no dlisting a bunch of games,
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even one of the most popular games,
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Mouthwashing, because it dared to be a
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little bit more mature of a video game.
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And speaking of other horror games,
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games like Vile Exumed, a horror title
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that focuses on parasocial relationships
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and some very, very wild real things
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people have to deal with simply because
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it's mature, ends up getting removed
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entirely off of Steam. So, that's wild.
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And in other things, Xbox has also
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thrown in age verification to social
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services. So yeah, it's uh it seems as
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if using a uh verifying yourself through
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facial recognition or showing
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identification is mostly going to be a
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thing in parts of the world now. But of
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course, we've also seen in the last
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couple days uh the United Kingdom has
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passed the online safety act. And uh you
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know, I think it doesn't end there,
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ladies and gentlemen. And I really do
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think that the next stage in this is
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VPNs, okay? Trying to take down the
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little amount of freedom that human
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beings get to have in the world. So I
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want to kind of keep this pretty much as
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like uh brief and sort of focused as I
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can. So a couple years ago, the actual
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organization, Offcom, for instance,
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which would be, you know, overseeing the
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regulations of this current online
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safety act. In 2022, the government over
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here urged that the government would
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consider a crackdown on VPNs. Okay, so
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this is before this law had actually
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passed. Now, why would they talk about
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VPNs? For anybody that doesn't know what
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a VPN is, a VPN is kind of like an
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encrypted tunnel that you can basically
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use to obfuscate where you are on the
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internet, right? So, for instance, being
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in Canada, I can use a VPN and connect
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myself to the United States. And in
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theory, for most of the websites that
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I'm visiting, they'll probably think
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that I'm from a United States IP. Now,
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it's not entirely as clear-cut and
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simple, but we'll get into it. So,
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according to uh, you know, the people
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researching this, they're commonly used
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to bypass regional locks on content,
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obviously. And of course, one of the
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actual MPs in this situation said there
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are vital problems in the bill, and the
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real threat is the use of virtual
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private networks. VPNs could undermine
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the effectiveness of these measures. So,
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basically, they wanted to kind of have
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another sort of clause. So, one clause
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that was brought in would require the
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Secretary of State to publish within 6
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months of this bill's passage a report
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on the effect of VPN use on Offcom's
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abilities to enforce the requirements.
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Now, I can already tell you, you don't
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have to go fast forward 6 months from
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now. I'll tell you the absolute case
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where VPNs are affecting this is
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probably guaranteed. For instance,
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ProtonVPN, one of the uh you know uh
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freeVPN options people have to sort of
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bypass a lot of these shitty UK laws
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that have passed. Uh this saw a surge of
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like a thousand%. Okay, so overnight
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people in the United Kingdom were
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suddenly googling, how the [ __ ] do I get
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this VPN thing and how do I use it to
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get past a lot of these blocks? So if
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you go to ProtonVPN, their free option
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is like obviously 100% free. You can
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secure one of your devices, you get
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medium VPN speeds. But if you scroll
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down a little bit, you'll start to
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notice that the option people really
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want to get onto is probably the f $5
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and 49month option. And that's because
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you can actually do things like
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streaming videos, which I imagine people
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want to stream certain videos that they
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can't because, you know, uh the the
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government says no. And of course, uh
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unless of course you provide your
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identification, which hopefully that
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doesn't get hacked down the road. I
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mean, everyone can hope. And then, of
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course, if you want to do things like
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Bit Torrent, basically they've blocked
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everything from the free option that
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people would absolutely probably want to
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use. So, you probably want to get the
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paid situation. Now, the reason why the
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VPNs are going to be targeted is because
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this is probably the easiest way for any
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of you guys to bypass any of these
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online safety acts. So again, the people
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of the United Kingdom made a petition
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which again has gotten 362,000
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signatures called repeal the online
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safety act. So the law goes into effect.
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And by the way, this law has been cooked
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up for a while. Goes into effect. People
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are like, "Oh my god, this actually is
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more sensorious than I thought." You
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know, this is getting rid of basically
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all forms of free and open internets,
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right? You know, you can't look at
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things like protest footage. You can't
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share, you know, things on the internet
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because they might be harmful or
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damaging to children, right? You'll have
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to provide government ID to actually
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view a lot of things in the world that
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should not be censored. If you live in a
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free society, you should be able to
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basically see whatever you want without
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the government basically putting in as
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much friction as they can between you
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and the truth. So, of course, the
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government responded to all of these
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signatures, which they're they're not a
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small amount of signatures, by the way.
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Even campaigns like stop killing games
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have not blown up as fast as something
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like online safety act and the repealing
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of it. So the government says uh by the
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way the government has no plans no plans
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to repeal the online safety act and
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they're actually working closely with
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offcom to implement this [ __ ] as quickly
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and effectively as possible to enable
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the UK users to benefit from its
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protections. Now you might be like well
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Muda why are you so into this? you're
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not from the United Kingdom, you're
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good, homie. And that's true. But to
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give you an idea, one law that I've seen
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people talk about, which I discussed
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about a year ago, was the Kids Online
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Safety Act. And to give you an idea, if
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you think that laws like this that are
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already successful in one part of the
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world, aren't just going to start
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passing all over the world, you would be
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shocked. Okay, simple as that. So
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anyways, the United States has a version
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called the Kids Online Safety and
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Privacy Act or COSPA or I guess commonly
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known as CASA which basically you know
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if you really read the fine print of the
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laws and again organizations like the
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EFF have kind of really talked about it
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is that it will actually cause systems
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to over censor their actual thing. It'll
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cause systems to almost you know get rid
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of things that you know marginalized
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communities ultimately do need. Okay. If
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you think that censorship works in just
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one direction, you are severely
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mistaken. As long as you give people the
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power to censor one thing, they will
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immediately everyone will start using
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this weapon to get rid of as much speech
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that they don't agree with off the
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internet. Okay, that's as simple as it
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is. Okay, censorship is bad. And it's
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bad because if you fight to have
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something censored, those same people
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can fight to have whatever you
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appreciate censored as well. Simple as
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that. Now, according to some individuals
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who've been uh dealing with this shitty
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online safety act, apparently some
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platforms have been so easy that users
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have been taking photos from Death
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Stranding 2 and using the highquality
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facial uh you know, graphics on this
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game and and AI have been apparently
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falling for it. Now, I haven't verified
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this for myself. I have tried to make a
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new PlayStation account and use AI
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images to bypass it, but a lot of these
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systems are actually starting to beat
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that. But never forget that ingenuity of
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people will always supersede whatever
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government restriction gets thrown in.
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Now, even when the government of the
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United Kingdom is kind of called out on
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this on national television, this is
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kind of the interesting thing you had to
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hear.
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>> Mr. President, you have a successful
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social media site. There are new powers
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here to censor your site, statemandated
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my site
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>> to censor your site and Twitter and
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Facebook. I mean, truth, is that okay? I
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don't think he's going to censor my site
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because I say only good things. Will you
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please uncensor my site?
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>> Yeah, we're not we're not censoring
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anyone. Um we've got some measures which
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are there to protect children in
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particular from sites like um suicide um
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sites. We've had too many uh cases in
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the United Kingdom of um young children
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taking their own lives. And when you
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look through their social media, they've
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been accessing um uh sites which talk
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about suicide and um you know uh
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encouraging if you like children down
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that road. And
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>> so immediately they bring up this like
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let's protect the kids stuff. So again I
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hear something new. We got to protect
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these kids from accessing these really
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spooky like you know suicide websites
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right? And again, if you go to any
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social media service and you just type
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in the words like suicide, for instance,
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you know, every social media platform or
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any search engine will automatically
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throw you a bunch of lifelines. In fact,
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just by me mentioning that word, I'm
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sure you're going to see a little
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community note on this video just
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underneath the title and description
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that says, "Hey, if you're, you know, in
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trouble, please seek some attention."
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And that's just because the system kicks
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in because it's such a serious topic
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that absolutely, you know, any search
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engine system is going to try to find a
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way for anybody feeling that way to get
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their help. So again, it's not the
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government that needs to jump in and
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provide assistance. A lot of these
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social media services, a lot of these
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search engines already provide that
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stuff just because it it actually is in
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this case the overwhelmingly uh moral
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thing to have done. But let's say that
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yes, he is right. kids are accessing
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crazy forums in other parts of the
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world, right? Crazy forums that probably
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aren't hosted in areas that the United
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Kingdom has any jurisdiction in. You
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know, I don't know how effective their
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control of the internet is going to be
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because the internet is for the most
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part a decentralized platform. And
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that's one of the reasons why their
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hunting of VPNs is going to be a waste
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of time. Now, I want to just walk you
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through the technology for a VPN real
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quickly as well. Uh there are some
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people that have said they can't ban
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VPNs. mood. They can't even try to
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remember, don't ever expect any
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government to not pass a law that is
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ultimately stupid. Do you actually think
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like anybody with do do you think do you
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think they put any thought into these
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laws before they pass them? I would
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wager probably not. But the thing is,
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yes, it is true, right? VPNs are kind of
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a necessary thing. For instance, if you
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work in governments, I'm pretty sure the
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uh you know, I think his name is Kier
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Stormer. Kier Starmer, he probably
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absolutely needs to use a VPN to access
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some pretty uh, you know, government
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networks, right? Some pretty uh, you
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know, secure government networks, if you
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will. If you work at a big company, if
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you work anywhere really, you'll
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probably need a VPN to access an
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internal network. And it's not super
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duper complicated. For instance, this is
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WireGuard, and you can create right now
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a fast VPN tunnel into your own house.
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Something that I actually do when I need
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to connect into my home network from
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outside the house. So, for instance, if
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I want to access things like the
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Raspberry Pi that runs a whole bunch of
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search engines and tools for my entire
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home network, once I VPN into my actual
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home, once I VPN to the uh WireGuard
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system that I have hosted, I can
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immediately just SSH into any network,
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any device on my actual um home network.
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So, right here, I've connected to that
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Raspberry Pi. And from here, I can
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modify things that affect my entire
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network. Right? So for instance, I have
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a Seir X andG like host where basically
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uh you know my search engine is not
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Google. I use Seir XNG and I have it in
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a way at my home network so that anybody
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who types in like CIR X andG uh into my
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like home network will automatically
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like go to my local instance. But we're
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getting really technical here. So the
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idea again you have to understand is
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VPNs are something that everyone uses,
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right? VPNs are something that you know
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uh you can't just ban. But there's
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nothing that stops like the government
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here from saying, "Okay, uh, as long as
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you're a in the government or as long as
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you know your your your VPN is is is
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part of a corporate entity or like a
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business or a hospital or something,
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that's an exception. But any company,
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anybody that's providing a
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consumer-grade VPN, that's a no no
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because obviously those are going to be
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used for circumventing the laws." Now
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the other thing is people who are
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purchasing VPNs that are under the five
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eyes alliance meaning that you know even
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if the United even if your VPN isn't
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hosted say in the United Kingdom as long
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as it's hosted in the United States or
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even Canada and I think Australia to an
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extent too these organizations will just
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rapidly share information between each
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other. So you're never really private as
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long as you truly research what kind of
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VPN you get into. Now the other thing is
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VPNs are not the only thing that can be
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used. uh to detect you, right? Like I
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said in the last video, when it comes to
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a lot of organizations tracking you, um
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just because you have a VPN doesn't mean
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that they're not looking at something
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else. So, let's say that you're using
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something like Google Chrome or a pretty
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uh you know, insecure browser, something
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that doesn't, you know, conceal a lot of
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your browser fingerprints, you could
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potentially have your information or
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your location presented in another way
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that isn't just your IP address. So, for
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example, let's say that I uh VPN myself
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to uh Los Angeles, right? A server in
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Los Angeles. Now, if I connect to a
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website and it checks my browser
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fingerprint and my brow browser
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fingerprint leaks out my time zone is
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actually in Toronto, then immediately it
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will say, "Okay, this makes no sense.
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How is a guy whose browser fingerprint
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matches that of a Torononian suddenly
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connecting to us from Los Angeles?"
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Probably is just a VPN. It's also the
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reason why when you connect to, you
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know, Netflix or something and you have
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like a a VPN that is detected by
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Netflix, they will often times identify
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it and remove you from access or prevent
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you from watching the video. And it's
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because it's a whack-a-ole game between
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some of the biggest VPN companies and a
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lot of these big tech companies in order
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to identify who's an actual user and
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who's a user that's connecting through a
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VPN data center. Now, if you want to
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bypass any form of that kind of browser
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fingerprinting, there are options like
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you can download Molvad browser, which I
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think is probably the best privacy
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focused browser for the Firefox side.
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And if you're on Chrome, I think one of
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the best options you can get is
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something like Google or not Google, but
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Brave browser. But even then, right,
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like if these guys want to track you,
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they ultimately can find a way. And I
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think slowly but surely, if it's not
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just a VPN ban coming in, it's even
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further checks in order to prevent
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people from accessing parts of the
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internet, unless of course you give up
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your personal information and and browse
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the internet hopefully uncensored. Now,
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of course, the thing is they probably
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don't have a law right now in the drafts
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for VPN blocking, but the thing is when
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they do this test, when they do this
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like research and see just how many
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people are bypassing it, don't doubt the
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fact that these people will try to make
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VPNs illegal or try to make at least the
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public facing consumption of it somewhat
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of a problem. And that's where I guess
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the last part of this video comes into
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the real last bastion of true internet
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freedom that you have is tour. So this
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is the tour browser and of course I've
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connected onto the tour network. Now
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obviously people can say that the tour
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network is used by you know people
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committing illegal actions which is
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true. There's a lot of illegal stuff
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that happens on tour. In fact uh a
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couple days ago I believe the uh US uh
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Department of Justice actually took down
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again more illegal uh pedto websites on
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the on the dark web. And the thing is,
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obviously for a platform that provides a
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real unprecedented level of anonymity,
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there's obviously people that use it for
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illegal reasons, but there are also
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legal reasons that people use something
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like Torah for. For instance, let's say
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you're a journalist. Let's say you're
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somebody operating in place where, you
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know, real censorship is a thing. And,
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you know, criticizing the government or
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sharing information could potentially
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get you killed or imprisoned. Using
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something like tour to conceal yourself
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is probably the option that people uh
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have. And that's ultimately the thing I
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want to talk about here, ladies and
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gentlemen. They want to get rid of VPNs.
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They want to ban the last bit of freedom
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people have. And if you think it stops
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in the UK, the US is passing laws.
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Canada might just pass laws. If it works
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in one place, don't expect it not to
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work somewhere else. If you like what
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you saw, please like, comment, and
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subscribe. Dislike if you dislike it. I
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am out.
