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It upsets me that people don't care about privacy and communications security. Mass data harvesting, mass surveillance, digital ID, chat control, VPN restrictions, encryption restrictions, email restrictions, backdoors in every device and component, et cetera - all of it is extremely bad and completely tyrannical.

How can anyone not feel the walls closing in? You're being herded into a pen where you can no longer dissent. After the transposition of the public space into the digital, there isn't really too much of a social/communal backup, like the pub, that everyone goes to without digital organising.

Even modern cars now ping cell towers, so they're constantly tracked, and are beginning to integrate driver cameras, so it doesn't matter if you don't take your phone somewhere, the car itself is spying on you.

There ARE people that care about this but not enough, and even people who should know better are lazy with this stuff and don't put in enough effort.
The problem is that these sites (YT, Netflix, etc) won't really care if you use a VPN, they're going to demand that you self-dox in order to login, and if you don't login then you're either out forever or stuck in a purgatory where you have to identify fire hydrants over and over forever.

The real need is alternative SERVICES...

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The gayest part of all this is I have been alive long enought to remember democrats complaining about the survellience state under Bush.

No, not Junior. Senior.

Then republicans complaining about it under Clinton and the democrats were suddenly okay with it. Then demoncrats again under Bush II and the republicans being okay with it. Then reublicans under Obama and democrats suddenly being okay with it again.

I hate them both so much. I have for two and a half decades, my whole adult life.