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Killerhurtz  ·  3458 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: VPN - To use or not to use, that's the question

You have nothing to hide until you need to hide something you believe.

It's obvious in other countries (Turkey, Iran, so on) that the government is seeking dissidents and locking down Internet to silence the people (so that they can get away with shit).

But the USA is also trying this - by the way of various lawsets (SOPA, TPA, PIPA). And when that passes, you'll have plenty to hide - that you watch shows/listen to music not licensed in the US (or without your personal license, like downloading it from a place not authorized by whoever carries the copyright... which could also shut down Netflix).

So even if you have nothing to hide /now/, using VPNs or TOR is a way to protest against these things.





querx  ·  3458 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Interesting point of view. Just one question out of pure curiosity: Do you use a VPN solely for protesting against SOPA & Co., or for providing yourself better content (like Netflix which you mentioned)?

Killerhurtz  ·  3458 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Purely out of protest. I'm fortunate enough to have access to all the content I want to watch (that I know about - I'm not saying I know about all the shows and movies out there). But these law projects are, to me, simply disgusting - as, from what I understand, all of the planned laws so far give the tools to ISPs to turn the Internet into a glorified, interactive cable TV ON TOP of giving the intelligence agencies the tools and legal background to watch where you're surfing (and if you're circumventing the blocks put in place).

querx  ·  3458 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Another curios question popped up: But how using a VPN helps to protest against bundles of crappy laws? The laws aren't in effect right now, so how do you think that using a VPN will change the path of accepting/rejecting SOPA + etc.?