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Starlink is refusing to comply with Brazil's X ban (Update: Starlink will comply) (www.engadget.com)
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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Controlled by governments or controlled by corpos and the super rich? I say there's hardly an improvement.

[–] Valmond 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, cables or radio waves, it's the same thing in the end.

What we need (IMO) is another layer on top if the classic internet with encryption and hookers.

[–] bizzle 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Like i2p or TOR?

[–] Valmond 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Or Tenfingers (my network protocol for decentralised web pages and data) ofc 😌

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is what IPSec OE was created to solve, but nobody uses it -- instead using things like TLS, which also provides protocol aware non-repudiation.

[–] ricdeh 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, but through the existence of both options, you can get more plurality than by using one individual option.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

If we're talking about corporations I can only assume you mean options in how to get fucked.

[–] OccamsRazer -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Government can throw you in jail.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Corporate throws you on the street to starve.

[–] OccamsRazer 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They tried that with me once, but I showed them and got a different job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You got another one job at the the other starlink?

There's a reason the system requires a certain percentage of unemployment to keep working. There's also a reason there's homeless people and children living in flood security.

[–] dustyData 1 points 2 months ago

Have you heard about this corporation called the church of Latter Day Saints?