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You know, I I just can't deny it. It's
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getting way way worse in a record amount
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of time. You know, ladies and gentlemen,
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I don't want to sit here and like doom
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scroll with you, but I believe the
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internet is the last big bastion of
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freedom. And, you know, somebody that,
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you know, has made content on things
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like the dark web and and unsavory parts
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of the internet and really the the the
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the not so much the darkest end, but
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sometimes the most obscure parts of the
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internet. I believe the freedom is a
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great thing. All right. I believe that
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getting to access the internet is
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awesome. All right, getting to access
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the internet unfettered is amazing. And
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even though that there are bad parts of
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the internet, I like to think that
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overall a lot of the really illegal
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stuff does get taken care of by the
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internet. Now, obviously things are not
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perfect, and that's pretty true. But
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what isn't perfect is the online safety
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act that apparently has kicked in the
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last few days. So, we already had [ __ ]
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like Steam and it io getting fisted by
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the payment processor cartel. Now, we've
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got governments over here pushing the
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online safety act. Now, what is the
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online safety act? Well, it protects
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children and adults online. It puts a
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range of new duty on social media
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companies and search services, giving
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them legal duties to protect their users
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from illegal content and content harmful
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to children. The act gives providers new
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duties to implement systems and
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processes the redu to reduce risks their
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services are used for illegal activity.
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Now a lot of the stuff on the internet
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that is illegal especially when it comes
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to mainstream platforms like you know
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YouTube the site that you're watching on
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tend to get taken care of relatively
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quickly uh just because there's a lot of
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tools freely accessible tools that
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YouTube has created that fight against
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truly illegal content. And generally
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speaking, even if we're talking about
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illegal content in the sense of deep
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fake technologies, there's a lot of new
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emerging technologies that are designed
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without the government getting involved
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to take care of a lot of the bad stuff.
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Now, do I think the United Kingdom is
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necessarily there to give a [ __ ] about
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the actual online safety of children?
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Absolutely not. every kind of law that
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I've seen, and there's plenty of these
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laws where, for instance, accessing, you
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know, the hub, accessing, you know,
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adult websites now require you, ladies
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and gentlemen, to dig for your wallet.
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Okay? Find out where your identification
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is. All right? I'm not going to show it
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for you, but and then present that over
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to, you know, an online platform. So,
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you take a photo of your ID, you send it
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over, and they verify it. Now, usually
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these IDs are supposed to be deleted in
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a matter of 24 hours, but given what
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we've seen with an app called T in the
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last like week uh in the last few days,
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it doesn't seem like all this
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information just magically gets deleted.
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Sometimes it can be up there, sometimes
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it can be unsecure and sometimes people
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can just grab this information and it's
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a scary world. Okay, we are absolutely
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creating new uh repositories that could
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possibly be hacked and our information
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could be shared around our very private
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information. Okay, it's a [ __ ] wild
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world. Now, overnight a lot of the
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biggest sites on the internet, for
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instance, started throwing out these big
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blockages. So, for instance, if you were
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in the UK and you saw this on a post on
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Twitter, due to local laws, we are
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temporarily restricting access to this
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content until X estimates your age. So,
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obviously, they're going to be requiring
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you to send in a selfie or a driver's
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license and verify if you're actually
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like a real, you know, adult or
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something. Now, of course, when you go
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down into it, you can even see that
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again when people were researching this.
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Offcom, the agency that is uh, you know,
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sort of uh leading the charge with the
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online safety act says age assurance
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methods supported are things like facial
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age estimation. So, this is usually
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where like, you know, you point a camera
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at your face, an AI looks at your face
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and guesses what your age is, and of
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course, it checks a person's age via
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their credit card provider, bank, or
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mobile phone network operator. So much
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like a lot of sites, I think Only Fans
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does it too where you know you uh in
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order to do anything on the website, you
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have to actually uh you know connect a
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credit card and they do like a little uh
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10-centent charge and they basically you
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know you have to tell them how much
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money you charged just to verify you
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know if the credit card provider is a
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valid one and through the credit card
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provider or the bank they can verify if
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somebody is of age. Then you've got
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photo ID matching, which is where they
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take your driver's license or any valid
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ID that you show at a bar that would be
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sent over to whatever server and they
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would validate that way. Or you could
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even send a passport or a similar ID
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which you check against a selfie. So
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again, it's really up to the agency. So
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for instance, it's up to you. It's not
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done through the government. You
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actually have to go through a
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third-party organization. And this is
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where again they want to adopt these
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measures where they want to you know not
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exclude adults from accessing legal
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content that may be adult but should
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protect their privacy as well. Age
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assurance methods uh deployed by the
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adult content platforms are subject to
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the GDPR. So there's a lot of red tape
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and regulations put around it. And I
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think it's not so much the government
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wants to just censor people or track
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them. If the government wants to censor
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you, let's say the government wants to
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track what websites you're going to,
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it's very easy for the government in
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this case to just literally go and uh
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you know, put a put a flag on you and
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just uh see what you're looking through
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at the ISP level. There's almost no way
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to really avoid that. There's nothing
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that stops a government agency from
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launching malware against you. Again, if
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the government wants to track what
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you're doing on the internet, it's
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actually very easy. No, what I think
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here is it's almost like a business
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interest. I think somebody in the VPN
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lobby has sort of guided the government
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to doing this because overnight I think
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ProtonVPN got like a,000% like upticks
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in signups or or or just interest. And I
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think a lot of it also benefits these
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companies that are doing third-party
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verification in general. But ultimately,
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look, at the end of all this, this is
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making the internet just significantly
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more inaccessible. Now for a lot of big
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uh providers like Twitter or YouTube or
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Reddit uh and even some of the biggest
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adult websites, they could just provide
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the third party support and they can
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weather the financial cost. But the
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thing is for smaller websites or
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websites that operate on a shoestring
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budget like Wikipedia, which we'll look
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at in a second, that ladies and
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gentlemen may be a death nail for those
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platforms. So, for instance, if you're
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somebody on Discord right now in the
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United Kingdom, according to this online
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safety act, you now have to provide your
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information to access Discord and verify
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yourself for having an age appropriate
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experience, I guess. So, how do you do
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the verification? Well, apparently you
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take a video selfie or you scan your
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identification. Okay. Then of course
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your age group is saved after this
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verification and then they'll DM you
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those results once they've verified your
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thing. So obviously for something like
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Discord I imagine they probably are
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working with an outside AI company that
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will take your uh you know driver's
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license ID or your you know video selfie
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and be able to approximate an age or be
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able to you know just OCR an entire
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driver's license and validate the
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absolute like you know uh you know just
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just to validate like you know what it
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is. Now, does this protect children in
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any case? Absolutely not. Because
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remember, uh this is easily bypassed if
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children can grab access to their
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parents or grandparents IDs and just
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provide them in place of whatever their
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ID would be for Discord. And there
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really isn't any way for any of these
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sites to truly validate this
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information. I mean, somebody could
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literally go to their mom's purse, grab
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an ID, send it over here, and I don't
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know, it would probably be validated,
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especially if they match usernames,
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ages, everything in the sign up process.
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Now, one thing that I want to also talk
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about too is obviously people will say,
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"Hey, just get a VPN. It'll bypass a lot
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of this." And it probably will for the
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most part, but nothing stops a lot of
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the government from, you know,
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tightening some of these restrictions or
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tests, right? Like imagine if you're a
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social media service, they can just go
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on you and say, "Okay, you're not doing
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enough." So the social media service
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instead of just, you know, looking for a
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VPN check or looking for a location
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check, a geoloccation track, it may
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start to look even deeper. And what a
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lot of people don't know is that their
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web browser gives a lot of information
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about themselves that uh they may not
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know. For instance, my browser gives
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time zone offsets, the location of my
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general area, which would be in Toronto.
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Uh, just from my time zone systems,
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it'll get an idea of what my screen
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resolution looks like. It'll get an idea
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for my fonts. You can identify a lot
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about an individual's location beyond
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just their geol location. You can use
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flags that will identify their local
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settings on their system, right? I mean
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why would somebody who lives in the
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United Kingdom or for example let's say
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that you're accessing a website right
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why would somebody who is uh accessing a
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website from the uh United States for
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instance having all of their browser
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fingerprinting all of their hardware
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fingerprinting matching that account or
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computer uh that that would exist in in
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a country like the United Kingdom for
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instance right these would be checks
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that would be validated and checked
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constantly and a lot of the stuff would
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be used to identify who you are even
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beyond a VPN. So I think that's one of
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the things that people kind of have to
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watch out for. Now whether you use a
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more hardened browser or whether you use
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something like tour to completely
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obuscate yourself as much as you can,
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the thing is there are a lot of ways to
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censor the internet or block people from
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accessing websites that the government
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doesn't deem okay. And again, it's easy
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to use adult content to weasle your way
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into this, right? But again, a lot of
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the problems with this law is that the
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description of adult content or harmful
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content can in some ways be a little
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vague. So maybe the government can use
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this to block, you know, uh, certain
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political speech, certain speech in
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general that, you know, may not be
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favorable. Maybe they might say that,
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hey, showing people how to use a VPN or
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how to use privacy techniques may in
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fact be harmful. Why are you teaching
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people that? That could be removed. That
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could be considered adult. Again, when
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you have vague definitions,
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it's tough to identify. It's it's it's
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it's tough to not see that as a way for
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the government or any organization to
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abuse that down the road when things
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become more entrenched. Now, you can
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read the actual legal case for yourself,
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too, but there's a lot of actual, you
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know, uh, worry that some of the actual
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depictions of what they want regulated
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is possibly a bit too vague, right? So,
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things like abusive material that
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targets, you know, specific minorities,
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so on and so forth, hate enticing
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content. A lot of these things could
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theoretically be vague, right? like you
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know obviously a blanket term like hate
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speech could in theory be allowed
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allowing the government to have any
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control over the kind of stuff that you
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say over on the internet and this
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absolute liability falls squarely onto
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the actual social media company. Now a
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couple months ago even Wikipedia
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challenged the online safety act. So
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again it's not just about social media
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companies or even the spooky adult
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websites and children accessing them
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based on the vagueness of the law that I
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just talked about. Wikipedia considers
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itself to be a target for this. So for
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instance, Wikipedia says that they are
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actually suing the UK government over
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the online safety act. The complaint is
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centered around the way organizations
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are categorized for the purpose of the
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act. Category 1 services rated on
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criteria such as the ability to forward
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or share content and number of users are
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subject to greater requirements and that
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includes user verification, swift
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removal of harmful content and age
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verification. So category 1 companies
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include basically every major social
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media network. So things like Facebook,
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things like you know Twitter, YouTube,
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so on and so forth. And because of the
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way Wikipedia technically operates, one
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could even consider it to be a category
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one system. Now again, I want to look at
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the law that Wikipedia is kind of
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talking about when it comes to category
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1. So this is how vague things can be.
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So category 1 website which Wikipedia
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believes it could fall under are met
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when a reg by a regulated userto- user
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service. So I believe the users in this
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case are the Wikipedia like
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contributors. in respect to the
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user-to-user part of the service. It has
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a average number of monthly active UK
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users that exceed 34 million and uses a
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content recommener system. So that's
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basically just like a YouTube um
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algorithm kind of thing, right? Like
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it's just a recommended engine. So has a
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average number of monthly active UK
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users that exceeds 7 million. Now I
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don't know if Wikipedia has a algorithm
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thing that like feeds you new articles.
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like I don't know if it has a similar
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recommendations engine, but then again,
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I'm not a Wikipedia contributor, so
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maybe I'm missing something here. And
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number three is provide a functionality
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for users to forward or share regulated
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UGC, which obviously would be like the
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photos, videos, and so on and so forth
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required to make all of the Wikipedia or
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just the Wikipdia
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um uh pages, right? So, this is like
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where it gets really wild, right? Like
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when Wikipedia is fighting against this,
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there's there's there's an explanation
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that this is obviously way too vague.
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Now, regardless of what you think about
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Wikipedia, I don't think I would put a
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porn site and Wikipedia in the same
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category. The only way those things are
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similar is if you're looking up like
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oral sex or something on Wikipedia and
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you happen to see an image. No, the
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reality is these kind of laws exist so
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that you can make the internet as
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annoying to access as you want. Because
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here's the thing, most people aren't
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going to dig out a VPN. Most people
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aren't going to bypass these or even
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attempt to bypass it. Okay? They were
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added so much friction to this [ __ ]
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that the only people thinking of
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bypassing it are nerds like me and you.
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Okay? This is a simple way for them to
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basically inflict as much pain on these
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websites as possible. And the thing is
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sites like Facebook might be able to get
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through it because they have the money
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for it. But a site like Wikip Wikipedia
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for instance, which if you go to the
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actual website and you actually just go
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to Wikipedia, they will constantly be
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asking for donations. I mean, not super
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in-your-face, but they will ask you for
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donations to their website because
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ultimately this website runs off of
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donations. They need donations. It's one
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of the most visited websites in the
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world that obviously falls under, you
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know, uh the amount of viewers recom
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needed to be a category one site, but it
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doesn't nowhere generate the the money
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needed to implement these like
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third-party uh rec uh facial
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verification or or just these like uh
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verification systems. And that's where
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it tends to like fall down. Okay, that's
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where it tends to lose. If enforced on
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Wikipedia, category 1 duties would
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undermine the privacy and safety of
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Wikipedia volunteer users because they
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would have to basically provide their
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identification, expose the encyclopedia
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to manipulation and vandalism, and
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divert essential resources from
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protecting and improving Wikipedia and
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other Wikipedia Wikipdia projects.
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Because no, the government isn't putting
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their resources, I believe, into the
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line. They're basically giving a lot of
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third-party companies the business
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advantage of jumping in and being the
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verifiers of this, right? So, it'd be
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one thing if the government was truly
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the one responsible for storing,
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vetting, and basically being the ones
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that would, you know, uh, check your IDs
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or your facial maps, but since we're
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handing this out to third party
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organizations, that is always a recipe
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way that that's always a recipe for
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disaster, so to speak. So again, it's
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not just Wikipedia, but even areas like
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again 4chan, parts of the internet where
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it can be considered one of the runchy,
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you know, hubs has even said that for
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their British users, starting July 25th,
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in accordance with the online safety
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act, 4chan will immediately block and
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cease all access to all of its content
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for visitors from the UK and British
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overseas territories. The UK law
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requires extensive monitoring and
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verification filters of our platform for
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its internet subjects of which our small
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dedicated team is neither equipped nor
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capable to comply effectively. So again,
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Wikipedia or Wikipedia was operating
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with again just a [ __ ] shoestring
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budget quite literally in comparison to
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something like YouTube for instance,
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right? And 4chan obviously doesn't have
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that crazy amount of money either. We
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also do not want to compromise our users
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privacy, liberty from consequences, and
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freedom of expression to meet these
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overwhelming demands. After a difficult
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yet considerate interest of both UK
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users, it has been decided that UK ISPs
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and domains will no longer be able to
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view nor engage with any content on its
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sites or its functions. So, for a lot of
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the British 4chain users, you just can't
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access your website anymore by going to
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4chan.org. Now ultimately in the end
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there's a lot of ways around this and
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all those ways involves VPNs. So for
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instance if you want the long way of
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doing it I made a video where I talked
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about MudVPN where I actually got a free
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account in some of these cloud services
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like Amazon for instance. So, you can go
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to Amazon's AWS, you can make a free
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account, and I believe you can get 6
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months of Amazon for free, the uh AWS,
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and as long as you go under Amazon EC2,
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you can set up an OpenVPN container and
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actually have your own VPN that routes
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to the United States. So, if you're
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somebody that lives in the United
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Kingdom and you now can't access a lot
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of websites because they're just
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limiting you, uh, you know, because of
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this new law, you can make your own VPN.
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I've shown you there's free packages.
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You can self-deploy this all on your own
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and browse the internet as if you were
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an American citizen on the interwebs.
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Now, the other way to do this is to
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obviously go to the VPNs. Now, I I'm not
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going to just promote any random VPN. I
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will show you the VPN that I used. Now,
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this is Malvad VPN. And MolvadVPN is
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important because I've been using them
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for years now. And they don't even know
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that I'm one of their customers. Why?
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It's because they're very anonymous. So,
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the way that it works, and I'll show you
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real quickly, is if you go to their
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login page, you can make a brand new
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account. And the way that this works is
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you generate your account number. So,
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here's a fresh number. You write this
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somewhere down because this is the only
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login information you have. And of
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course, at that point, you go to the
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account. Uh, you basically put in that
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number like so. You log in. And from
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here, you can absolutely send them cash.
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You can send them a credit card. Whether
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your credit card company allows you or
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not, that's a different question. Or you
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can wire them money, but what I prefer
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is using a cryptocurrency like Monero,
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Bitcoin, something truly anonymous. And
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then as soon as you add stuff to their
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account, you can go to the downloads
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page, you can download Molvad for
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Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Android,
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and basically get access to a pretty
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banger for I think it's like€5 a month.
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and that will be all you need to access
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the parts of the internet that the
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United Kingdom now wants you to suddenly
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verify yourself for. So they've really
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imposed a lot of these [ __ ] laws
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that even if you know sites are even
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even if it's annoying to access certain
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websites I think it's downright scary to
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see parts of the internet now not
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servicing one of the biggest countries
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in the world the United Kingdom one of
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the one of the most important
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historically uh you know uh in the world
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I if the internet is not free that's a
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scary world we live in now is this going
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to get repealed I don't know probably
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not. Honestly, this is probably the
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first step in a long step to see
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multiple countries investing in their
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own censorship. And as somebody that's
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went to parts of the world where
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accessing the internet is not a free
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experience, okay, I've been to plenty of
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countries where you cannot access the
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internet freely, you know, there's
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always the great firewall of China that
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blocks you or whatever, you know, ISP
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firewall. And I've always been so
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blessed to come back to North America
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and be able to open up my like phone,
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open up my browser and just just browse
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the internet to my heart's content. And
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you know, again, I'm not from the UK,
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but I definitely feel for anybody on
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that side of the world that is now
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living in a a a society where they are
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ultimately there is censorship. I mean,
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if 4chan and and and maybe Wikipedia
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down the road isn't even servicing you,
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is that not to an extent what censorship
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is, right? Like, hey, yeah, the private
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company was snuffed out because they
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couldn't support some of these actual
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crazy laws that they passed, these
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verification requirements, and boom, all
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of a sudden things are gone. Only the
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biggest players in the game, you know,
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notably Discord, I think YouTube can
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really service the kind of people there.
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But that's just a [ __ ] situation to
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happen. Now, obviously, I think for a
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lot of my UK viewers, right, which I
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know there's a fair bit of, uh, one of
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the things that is so important in this
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is obviously the tour browser. Ignoring
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all the VPNs, this is the only
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networking framework that will at least
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allow you to access the internet against
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any forms of government censorship,
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tracking, or surveillance. And I think
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there's no better time now even to
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access parts of the clear web now for
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people in the EU than to start actually
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using things like the tour relay because
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the moment you have I think it's just
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absurd that you have to start even
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considering using this stuff to access
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things in the western world. You know,
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we're living in a time of censorship
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coming at us from both the government
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end and from private entities. And
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honestly, we have to find some way to
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fight back. And if it's using the tour
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browser or if it's using VPN services
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like Mulvad which have been raided with
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search warrants and have still survived.
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That's the world we live in ladies and
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gentlemen. Truly dark times. Really is
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what it is. But yeah, I wanted to talk
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about it because overnight it seems like
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for one of the biggest countries, the
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internet suddenly became
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the most restricted [ __ ] they've ever
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had to seen. Anyways, if you like what
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