Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Australians soon engaging in wider spread adoption of VPN and tor usage.
Yeah. But the important question is where should we choose as our exit server. The UK is no good. Certain states in the US. European countries have rules. Are there any vpn servers in Africa or the Cayman Islands?
I highly recommend finding onion services on tor to replace your clearnet services when at all possible. That way you're not leaving the tor network at all. And there is no need for an exit to the clearnet at any point in the route.
Taiwan. Ranks high on internet freedom and is close by.
It's only a matter of time before this is everywhere. It's spreading like the plague it is. When it finally gets down to just the last few providers, they'll be watching them like a hawk.
We need some kind of peer-to-peer network with plausible deniability built-in. like you decrypt all the chunks forward and you get segments of Linux ISOs. And if you decrypt them backwards, you get the actual payload. Old school Vera Crypt style.
I wish there was a more clear answer to this question. I certainly don't have it but yes there are servers in Africa.
This is the real problem. As more and more countries push for laws like this I think sites will just adopt blanket age-verification for simplicity's sake instead of having to constantly keep track of which countries/states in countries require it
I forsee open directories and data hordes becoming popular
Inshitification of the Internet, who would have thought.
I wonder what it would take now to ditch the internet like one would do when ditching Facebook for example.
It would be somewhat freeing, I imagine. Though, if you were to go hardcore, quick access to knowledge would be the biggest drawback.
Ditching the enshittified parts would probably be easier. Can do offline maps (or paper), purge social media, and use credible sites for any information you might need to look up.
I doubt it would be 100% completely possible, it was more of a hypothetical thought in its self.
Knowing most services are reliant on the internet now, such a POS (point of sale) devices in stores, home phones, condo intercoms, buying airline tickets.
Its would definitely be easier to just stay away or block enshitified parts at the firewall level. Though in some cases even then I find myself using Facebook for its Marketplace only as a example.
Im surprised this is the first Ive heard, and so little response. Who do we petition, when's the march?
Dude, this is Australia, we just protest if China does it other then that it's fiine.
Don't they already check if user is over 16 if he wants to sign up for mainstream social media?
And why the fuck does the govt. not provide the age verification tools? This is the insane part.
Eventually a network decentralized on an infrastructure level, like a meshnet or satellite network where each satellite is controlled and owned by an individual, will be the only way to freely transmit digital information. Sending a CubeSat to LEO costs about $30k these days and will probably get cheaper as technology improves. I think a community run decentralized satellite network accessible via local meshnet through on-ground satellite-connected nodes will be the next step in the fight against censorship. As long as governments control the cables our data flows through, they won't stop trying to control it.