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Governments, Big Business, & Tyrants are using technology to control and censor you. Here we discuss how to break free.

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If you have a throwaway email address, no email address, or are connecting via VPN, you may be “not in good standing.” (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/120341

"A while ago, I had a comment auto-removed on WPT and got a message it was because my account was “not in good standing.” When I messaged the WPT mods, they explained that they were test piloting a new tool the admins plan to use. For example, if you have a throwaway email address, no email address, or are connecting via VPN, you may be “not in good standing.”

With things like that on the horizon, even if they roll back on what they’re doing now, we’re still not likely to have a very good time on that site."

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is absolutely terrible. Besides the privacy/anonymity factor, VPNs are also used to access geoblocked content. Some autocratic regimes ban a lot of valuable resources on the internet because they want to control people’s access to information. This is only going to help the people in power.