I bet China would be happy to help. It also cracks me up that people on this site were almost entirely in favor of a TikTok ban, but when it’s someone else’s government doing what amounts to the same thing then they’re “heading down a dark path”. Could folks please make up their minds and not treat the US as though it’s exempt from the “dark paths”?

Pretty simple explanation: US good, rest bad.

January 8th in Brazil - "troubled Southern American country", "broken democracy", "banana republic"

January 6th in the US - just a blip in the world's most perfect democracy. etc.

US media in a nutshell: https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/460629937/our-blessed-homel...

For starters the US never threatened VPN users with a $9k daily fine

I've heard that for 15 years straight, they went for adult content RealID before going for VPNs - which, if your beliefs end up being true - was a ridiculous order of priority. Thus, I don't think they'll go for VPNs.

You'd think with all of the people saying "they won't go after..." and being wrong people would show a bit less hubris.

Ah yes, the platform that advocates free speech is totally worth the same hate as the platform that is a demonstrable psyop by a communist regime.

If you believe X advocates free speech, you have an imperfect view of X or free speech. Maybe they made your political speech more permissible, but they are clamping down hard on other speech.

Free speech absolutists should be just as irritated by today's X as yesterday's Twitter. Subbing out one set of permitted speech for a different set is not a free speech win.

The average person doesn't know what a DNS is and isn't willing to pay for a VPN. Society isn't a tech bubble.

I don't know what you mean by "the average person" but most of my friends in Brazil, even the relatively tech illiterates, not only know what a VPN is but many or even most of them either have paid or currently pay for one.