You forgot the third car using a VPN to get all the content they’re actually paying for on all of their streaming apps
A 4th car is going to the highseas.
Baton down the hatches and raise me sails matey!
Baton
Batten
Maybe they were just really stubborn.
I just want to watch the Japanese Netflix anime drops. Is that so much to ask for natively?
Texas residents using a VPN for porn
And Louisiana. People forget that it was first in the porn ban that doesn’t even work.
Bout to be CO too, not just limited to red states unfortunately.
Admittedly, it’s not just for porn, but social media in general. Either way, the same reasoning applies, I’m not giving a third party company my identity just for a social media account and I’m certainly not going to do it for porn
Oh man, this is a much better comparison.
It’s still not perfect, though, since technically porn isn’t banned, but it’s effectively banned by requiring ID checking, which major websites like pornhub refuse to do.
But this also allegedly targets “culture”, just like China’s great firewall. It’s pretty damn stupid.
Can someone explain it to Europeans?
Americans who pluralize with an apostrophe.
For serious. 😵💫🖕🏽
I think it’s perfectly acceptable with TLAs. Just using the lower case s makes it seem like it could be an extension of the short hand.
Off topic but I really enjoyed much of this show (Umbrella Academy), particularly I was so impressed with how the child actor actually pulled off carrying the entire show, he was not only the leading & most interesting character but also IMO had one of the best performances on it. Come to think of it, I should look into what else he’s done.
Anyway, what episode is this from, do you know? (I know it’s just a meme format now, worth a shot tho)
Excellent post btw, I gave all the upvote I could
Five and Klaus carried the show
If you like Klaus you should watch a show the same actor did years ago called Misfits! He kind of carried that show too, it was never quite as good after he left lol
I actually watched the whole first season with a buddy of mine but couldn’t get myself to like it. Only good thing was all that bri’ish swearing
The umbrella academy was hard carried by five. The actor really pulled off the adult stuck in a kid’s body thing. The actor that played the guy with addiction issues was great too.
They’re gonna be real disappointed with the version of “Tiktok” available in China
Why would they VPN to the version of the app that has less English speakers?
I’ve got Chinese GenZ TikTok pegged as 10x more entertaining than American Boomer Facebook.
嘿，宝贝，想换VPN吗？(Hey babe, you wanna swap VPNs?) 🥵
That’s kinda funny. Do people really use that pun?
I’m using a VPN to byapass porn blocks while I’m stuck as an inpatient in hospital.
Fun fact, VPNs are regulated by the state in China
Same in Russia. I worked with a banking company that had a Russia office, and the company had to get government approval for the BOVPNs that were used.
What’s the point then?
Security and testing localization will be big use cases. But privacy and or using banned apps, no so much. They don’t call it the Great Firewall for nothing. ISPs, VPNs, etc.
If you want to use western social media , it’s not as simple as jumping into a VPN.
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This is the kind of thing that gets to me in this whole TikTok situation the most.
China bans most American based social media and what it doesn’t ban is heavily monitored censored and regulated.
Why would we (Americans) want to willingly use a Chinese owned/based/operated social media platform like TikTok?
We should never have started using it in the first place or at least immediately dropped it as soon as it became common knowledge that it had substantial ties to china.
There is so much hypocrisy on all sides of this issue.
What’s funny about this is that the fear of Chinese Authoritarianism leads Americans straight into American Authoritarianism.
It’s this close to self awareness and then veers straight into hypocrisy
Well, they probably read Machiavelli and may not always have our best interests at heart so it’s not inconceivable it’s entirely intentional.
It does smack of hypocrisy but I’ve been feeling more it’s a paradox of tolerance thing. Which itself a sort of hypocrisy now that I’m thinking about it. Huh.
nah, i don’t see it as a tolerance issue at all, I see it more through a Chomsky/Foucault lens.
US social media has been used as a state messaging apparatus for going on two decades now, and a foreign-owned platform is simply not as responsive to US state pressure as a domestically-owned one. China was simply playing the same game as the US has been. It’s not at all surprising that the US would want to ban one that has gotten to be so widely used - but what’s funny about it is the messaging/logic used to do so.
“A communist authoritarian actor is influencing civilian opinion through media curation, so we must take drastic authoritarian action to control media curation to stop foreign influence of civilian opinion.”
I think seeing it through a ‘paradox of tolerance’ lens kinda misses the point of the irony I see in the response.
We are not in China, are we? The (american) government should NOT have control over what information its citizens have access to. We should not strive to be like China in this regard.
I think they mean that the users shouldn’t use it. Not that the government should ban it.
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using VPNs*
It’s the VPN’s service.
Anytime I see a misplaced apostrophe I assign some kind ownership to it. This one’s okay.
Russians using VPN to access
gosuslugi in 2024telegram in 2018.Please, don’t even touch this. With our RKN and useless pinnocchios banning random things extrajudiciously, I’d be surprised if we’d have any access to the internet in 2026. For those without a government issued pass and active service in bot farms, I mean. If I’d get limited to local resources, I feel like I’d give up on internet altogether. Can’t discuss shit there without pseudo-trad weirdos chiming in.
It may be a major plus for the Internet as a whole if the cable is cut completely, but I feel like it’d only be cut for dissenting folks, while carriers of the official talking points wouldn’t ever get limited.
You forgot there is a tram service to Lemmy
Meh, entirely different type of SM, what we really need is the defederated version of TT
But video is expensive so it probably won’t happen for a long time
Now if TT redoes their app to be defederated to evade US law that would be hilarious
Supposedly Pixelfed or Peertube just added shorts.
A big issue with that is when I signed up to peertube 10 months ago, literally the only videos I could find were French language protestors.
I would have preferred if they kept shorts off.
If it gets people to start using it and uploading content overall it is a win, although my hope was that it would build out to be a PBS competitor
Hey, woah. I don’t want you to be right. I want to stew in my contempt of YouTube Shorts.
They are working on it
Stay tuned Loops
not a lot of videos hosted on lemmy
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Except Tik Tok hasn’t been banned yet. And it’s not being banned for even remotely the same reason.
The issue with Tik Tok is that it’s owned by a company with ties to the CCP. The CCP, conversly, has “the great firewall”, which is directly intended to facilitate Chinese propaganda efforts to control their people.
Ssshhhhh… the toktok ban is ONLY about preventing speech!
Lmao. You people think CCP will use your data to control you? No way your American government can do the same, right?
You’re kinda stupid if you think big nation states outside of China do not participate in what China does. China learned from other influential countries as the CCP are the new kids on the block
Doesn’t mean American companies should be allowed to platform chinese apps.
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Tiktok and their inconsistent very sick snowflake moderation with punishing the appeals should be avoided. Ive stopped using it, deleted from my phone
