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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • Hi, u/NONE_dc, I can tell you this is actually infuriating from my perspective, even though I’m in the State of Pennsylvania in the US. I didn’t hear anything about this attack taking place until early this morning after I woke up, and I have not been feeling myself all day since I have been feeling anxious, which it may possibly be due to the attack in Venezuela. I also don’t care about Maduro either, but it has me wondering what the world is coming to. Furthermore, I was trying to find out what is going to happen next via MS NOW, but the feed I have from that channel is currently freezing from time to time, so I’m stuck with the NBC News feed instead.















  • Let’s be clear here: lawmakers need to abandon this entire approach.

    The answer to “how do we keep kids safe online” isn’t “destroy everyone’s privacy.” It’s not “force people to hand over their IDs to access legal content.” And it’s certainly not "ban access to the tools that protect journalists, activists, and abuse survivors.”

    If lawmakers genuinely care about young people’s well-being, they should invest in education, support parents with better tools, and address the actual root causes of harm online. What they shouldn’t do is wage war on privacy itself. Attacks on VPNs are attacks on digital privacy and digital freedom. And this battle is being fought by people who clearly have no idea how any of this technology actually works.

    If you live in Wisconsin—reach out to your Senator and urge them to kill A.B. 105/S.B. 130, and if you know someone who lives in Wisconsin—tell them to do the same. Our privacy matters. VPNs matter. And politicians who can’t tell the difference between a security tool and a “loophole” shouldn’t be writing laws about the internet.