I am typing this from Pakistan, where, despite internet having being "restored" acc to the government, we are still facing blockages on twitter and youtube.
And I have come to the realisation that while I would obviously prefer there be NO censorship, it's better for a govt to selectively block website links, rather than allow them to whole sale block entire websites. (a lesser of two evils, in other words.)
Obviously I am using a VPN (a free one because no money, thank you Proton VPN), but it's extremely annoying to spin up a VPN just to see an ordinary tweet that has no political bent, like if there is a road block or other routine information one uses twitter for.
I would much rather spin up TOR or a VPN for the occasional tweet, rather than be forced to rely on alternative paths for all the time, because our govt HAS been known to be extremely pig-headed; our govt banned YouTube for like 6 years. At some point, you just hope to pass through the day.
(Also, while I might not respect my private data enough to use a free VPN, I am still not stupid enough to log in using one, whatever difference that makes, so yeah...hopefully the ban ends before I get signed out from services)
In other news, I was trying to install the google cloud cli, and it couldn't install because of a time out (wouldn't happen on vpn, so definitely a block thing) so again, I would much rather company do the censorship (clean and exact) rather than the clumsy attempts by govt which end up blocking random associated things in it's shade.
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That said, real egg on elon's face regardless. For the love of *, you have a new twitter ceo now, just leave the damn thing and go back to the rockets dammit.
Actually every thing seems to be worse, I think govt has changed tacks from banning websites to just outright throttling internet access, no point in using VPN when you keep getting pinged out.
So they can claim the internet is "open" but it's molasses slow.
And I have come to the realisation that while I would obviously prefer there be NO censorship, it's better for a govt to selectively block website links, rather than allow them to whole sale block entire websites. (a lesser of two evils, in other words.)
Obviously I am using a VPN (a free one because no money, thank you Proton VPN), but it's extremely annoying to spin up a VPN just to see an ordinary tweet that has no political bent, like if there is a road block or other routine information one uses twitter for.
I would much rather spin up TOR or a VPN for the occasional tweet, rather than be forced to rely on alternative paths for all the time, because our govt HAS been known to be extremely pig-headed; our govt banned YouTube for like 6 years. At some point, you just hope to pass through the day.
(Also, while I might not respect my private data enough to use a free VPN, I am still not stupid enough to log in using one, whatever difference that makes, so yeah...hopefully the ban ends before I get signed out from services)
In other news, I was trying to install the google cloud cli, and it couldn't install because of a time out (wouldn't happen on vpn, so definitely a block thing) so again, I would much rather company do the censorship (clean and exact) rather than the clumsy attempts by govt which end up blocking random associated things in it's shade.
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That said, real egg on elon's face regardless. For the love of *, you have a new twitter ceo now, just leave the damn thing and go back to the rockets dammit.