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Russia’s campaign to stifle dissent online is part of a growing global trend (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

USA blocks torrent sites and CIA criticism, Russia wants everything logged, China downgrades your traffic to TLS1.2, India wants "Indian variant" phrase banned, Germany enforcing netdz, UK literally wants to stalk your child by breaking IM encryption.........

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You forgot about Australia, which as of now has made consumer encryption illegal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Australia legalizes hacking!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

A good summary TBH

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

Don't get me started on country heads posting on twitter while twitter being throttled, then there's all the other sites they use and block at the same time.