There's a pretty bad bias problem here because the probe app scans domains that are frequently blocked in dictatorships, but doesn't scan domains that are frequently blocked in "democracies", like Anna's Archive. Then it ends up looking like the dictatorship countries have all the censorship.
"democracies" have a separate problem, even if we had true direct democracy (and not representative democracy)- people often conflate what is <i>popular</i> with what is <i>true</i>.<p>You can see this directly in online forums (including this one), unpopular truths are routinely flagged to the point where it doesn't matter that discussion could have happened, it <i>effectively</i> can't- and not because the points don't make sense or can't be reasoned with... but because it doesn't feel good that it's true.<p>So, unfortunately, I think censorship is inevitable.. I guess it's better to have censorship from a small group of people <i>for</i> a small group of people instead of having censorship from a small group of people to a nation-wide group of people though.
Scare quoting democracies is probably telling, but OONI absolutely does test content blocked in Western countries. <a href="https://explorer.ooni.org/domain/annas-archive.org" rel="nofollow">https://explorer.ooni.org/domain/annas-archive.org</a>
Funny how people block Anna's Archive but never archive.org, which houses the largest centralized collection of warez on the planet. Usenet might have more but it is replicated across the globe.
scare quoting """""""""democracies""""""""" is perfectly acceptable when it couldn't be more obvious that those so-called democracies do anything but represent the will of their peoples. do you know anyone who'd voted for having to scan their face to access verboten webseites? to have encryption backdoors in their messengers? to have state-mandated spyware preinstalled on their phones?
They don’t represent the people’s will, but unfortunately many people believe in censorship, so even if they were true direct democracies we may still see some.
Yes, I do know people who voted for the party that pushes things like this in my country.
Plenty of people are happy to surrender their freedom for a feeling of security.
People don’t vote for it for themselves, they vote for it for others and are surprised when it applies to them just the same.
...you'd be surprised, plenty of regular people actually want these things to happen. State is God for reliably the majority of the population of the world (seeing as the majority resides in China and South Asia).
> do you know anyone who'd voted for having to scan their face to access verboten webseites? to have encryption backdoors in their messengers? to have state-mandated spyware preinstalled on their phones?<p>I know a few. They're called "normal people who don't suffer from crippling tech libertarianism" and there's more of them than of you.
you must have plenty of unambiguous evidence then, given how numerous such goodthinking individuals apparently are.<p>where do these paragons of civil obedience congregate? how do they express their wishes for less freedom and more surveillance?
They're all around you irl. Touch grass and find out.<p>And to your sarcastic remarks about those people being dumb, believe it or not not everyone is willing to forgo every possible evil in the name of personal privacy in remote communication. Such privacy was never a thing until very recently anyway.<p>(In fact as far as most people are concerned it isn't a thing today either, you'd be surprised how many people assume that their messages and calls are spied on anyway)
It was actually illegal for the post office to read your mail or the phone company to listen to your calls.
and so you've spent 20 minutes editing this comment to optimize the amount of snark instead of simply showing me one proof of that silent majority's existence :)
> you've spent 20 minutes editing this comment to optimize the amount of snark<p>why would i waste that much time on writing a reply to you and where do you see snark exactly?<p>> one proof<p>i just talk about it with people irl, yeah that thing i suggest you try;)
oh, but it's the exact opposite. the people IRL tend to react to censorship and surveillance with the word <i>пидорасы</i>, while the regime's eunuchs on the Internet defend it.<p>maybe having lived under the Soviets makes my people less welcoming to the idea of a commissar deciding what they're allowed to see, hear, say, and ultimately think.
Isn't the user base of tiktok proof?
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> I know a few. They're called "normal people who don't suffer from crippling tech libertarianism" and there's more of them than of you.<p>They voted for it or you assume they don't mind it existing?
It's not in the scan list by default. You can type in any domain and scan it but those are sporadic.<p>Edit: it must have been added recently since there's proper data now. But most of the CUII list is still not.
Just because a comment is factually wrong it does not prevent it from being the #1 comment on HN. It only has to sound contrarian enough.
Internet blocking is a last resort for regimes that can't do anything against the source of the information or intermediaries, but it's a red herring in regimes that can. Anna's Archive has a political position and is one of the very few <i>voices</i> that survived the immense pressure. How many didn't? How many attempts were not performed at all because of it? This suppression is really hard to measure, OONI can't do anything here, it measures blocking. It's very simple to understand.
The platform is quite open, so you can build whichever tests you want. Personally I run a dockerized ooni via scheduled GitHub actions, which shows blocks impacting GitHub runners. You should be able to see logs from that here, which shows three blocked websites <a href="https://github.com/robalexdev/ooni-unattended-action/actions/runs/33824187064/job/100873202754" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/robalexdev/ooni-unattended-action/actions...</a><p>You can build your own lists and share them using ooni run: <a href="https://run.ooni.org/" rel="nofollow">https://run.ooni.org/</a>
Here's my personal benchmark on this public site. Anecdote of 1.
Does posting links to these two videos related to health care decisions that were officially approved or denied to people. Get this post... Unalived?<p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=YmOeKahtmdQ" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=YmOeKahtmdQ</a><p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=FRRX0J_TDXY" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=FRRX0J_TDXY</a>
Just today someone complained that he can't use Google to search inside Rutracker thanks to EU.
It all depends on what you're censoring.<p>Is it a bad sign if CSAM, Personal (medical, financial, etc) Records, Snuff, and Malware/Ransomeware are censored? What about manufacture of WMDs, terrorism, hate speech? Free software, and copyrighted music? Historical records of genocide?
Is there any authority in any country in the world that can be trusted to censor just what it's supposed to censor?<p>Doubt it. Besides malice there's also incompetence.<p>See the article that's also on the front page right now about Spain blocking Cloudflare (i.e. half the internet) during football matches.
You'd still want that censorship to be documented.
"I was just downloading those videos of children being raped to make sure they were still available in their full un-redacted format!"<p>Let me know how that works out.<p>Arguably, the most significant difference is between "free speech" and commercial/paid speech, or distribution vs viewability, but not distinguishing the two and calling both "internet censorship" creates a phrase without much support or meaning.
As an aside… the if there was a real system out there that was trustworthy, it would have all of this and it would be the evidence you actually need to trust it.<p>If someone had a secure system for some of the worst stuff out there and it lasted more than a minute, pay attention because they might have actually solved some real problems.
> if there was a real system out there that was trustworthy, it would have all of this and it would be the evidence you actually need to trust it.<p>Here you go: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2p" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2p</a>
I would only use the term "censorship" to refer to the prevention of speech based on its <i>content</i>. Content-neutral time, place, and manner restrictions aren't censorship according to the way I use the word, and neither is copyright protection.<p>Note that censorship isn't necessarily bad and restrictions on speech that aren't censorship aren't necessarily acceptable. The prohibition on child pornography is censorship but I support it, while I am opposed to IP law in its entirety.
Hmm.<p>I'd wager the vast majority of internet censorship is <i>within platform</i>, like that done by Reddit mods.<p>The most egregious example I've seen in my lifetime was when old Twitter decided to censor a NYPost article, down to blocking sharing in <i>DMs</i>.<p>It seems that type of example is entirely missed here. Is there any attempt to capture that signal?
If you count platform moderation as 'censorship' then there's practically no uncensored public spaces on the internet.<p>Literally even 4chan has moderation.<p>Nobody, not even 4chan users, want an actually unmoderated space.
Moderation as in "You can't call the other posted 'fuckface'" and moderation as in "I will delete every mention of this news story because it's negative to the agenda I want to push" are not, at all, the same thing.<p>In fact, I wouldn't call the latter "moderation" at all, rather it's mods abusing their power to push political propaganda, but they do it through moderation in terms of action.
What if the news story is just calling someone fuckface? A lot of them are like that in this age of slop news.
> I will delete every mention of this news story because it's negative to the agenda I want to push<p>Thankfully this is extremely rare on the major platforms. "This news story is fake as fuck and is causing trouble such as people going to throw Molotov cocktails at random mosques" is the common scenario.
Some of the moderation is just banning people with differing opinions.
My comment above does not rely on the premise that all moderation is censorship. Only that some Reddit mods engage in censorship.
4chan <i>users</i> might want that, but even for the types of people willing to operate a site like that they don't want to be liable for the amount of CSAM, piracy, and other legally objectionable material that would end up on a fully unmoderated site.
Deciding what is spam and blocking it is moderation or "censorship".<p>If 4chan didnt have spam filters, the users would be begging for it almost immediately because the website would become unusable.
We might be talking past each other a bit. I agree that without any sort of spam filter a comment site would become unusable.<p>What I was trying to point out is that there are a lot of users of these 'edgy' sites that would like to post content that the site owners don't want them posting. So the site owner censors and removes CSAM and piracy so that the site isn't immediately in a legal black hole. The site owners remove content that at least some of the users would want be a use they find it morally or legally objectionable. Spam is kinda orthogonal to that point, since neither the site owner or the users want to see it.
What you said about spam is exactly what I'm trying to point out.<p>There are forms of moderation that we often dont even think of as moderation or 'censorship' because its removing content that "nobody" wants to see. One may argue that the spammers are users of the site who are being censored.<p>Also, this is a side note, but I'd assume that the overwhelming majority of even 4chan users are in favour of CSAM being banned from the site, even if there are some users who want to see it (i could be wrong about that, it's not like i even have anecdotes to back that up)
CSAM and piracy aren't the worst of examples on a site like 4chan. People... like clinically insane people just keeps scriptbombing someone's private addresses and bomb threats and other schizophrenic copypastas(not regular ones like Blackbird speed checks or "Glasses are versatile", but more like cognitohazards) as well as there will be viagra/cialis/poker/prostitution/roblox spams. I think those in that order should be the primary concern for keeping BBS running because those chase normal people away.<p>For the two categories mentioned above that are plainly illegal, I think, ironically, you can probably just keep AI classifiers running and wait for calls from NCMEC or DMCA emails, exploiting safe harbor clauses and/or by pointing at reasonable measures you've taken. If you have a large post volumes and short public log retention(private logs will probably have to be kept), that would help keeping the pressure low for those.
<i>>there's practically no uncensored public spaces on the internet</i><p>Yes? Moderation is a form of censorship with a different connotation (the one you agree with vs the other you don't). I don't see how it's controversial
i can name at least (1) thing that wants "unmoderated space": LLMs.
Regardless there's value to know exactly what topics are off limits and for which platforms. Censorship needs to be measured and quantified (probably with vectors).
I want an unmoderated space. Or rather, I want the tools of moderation to be in the hands of the users instead of a central authority.<p>Giving an anonymous rando the power to censor my conversation is abhorrent. And it's absurd that most people are ok with that.
You still want to know the extent of that 'moderation' that is totally not censorship. E.g. Facebook and Instagram ban white nationalism, and Youtube has banned American Renaissance, meaning we can infer Google bans white nationalism too, as American Renaissance is guilty of nothing else.<p>You may agree or disagree with the ban, but surely you agree that we should be <i>aware</i> of such Overton window enforcement?
Not just reddit mods. Google 2013 Eglin Air Force Base incident reddit.
As a thought exercise, <i>could</i> it be captured?
Depends on the platform. On Reddit, definitely yes, as almost all censorship is "deletion style" where the target post or comment is initially visible until the mods suppress it.<p>But your point is well taken, it's definitely more challenging and expensive than what's being done here.
That used to be the case on Reddit, not any more as about half of all accounts start off shadowbanned and mods approve their posts.
It would be one heck of a challenge, but, almost by definition "impossible" - as a naive guess, perhaps (for those platforms that have opened code) characterize some statistical signatures that "arbitrary data" ran through it (simulating user activity) would show ...<p>... and then check for those (or, counterexamples) in the wild.-
Join the referral program for a low cost online pharmacy. Post a link on each platform informing the users about the availability of male health products. Measure if it gets removed.
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> old Twitter decided to censor a NYPost article<p>Which article, about what subject?
Are there NYPost articles you feel people should be prevented from DMing? Or posting, for that matter?
They censored the Hunter Biden laptop story weeks before the election.
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For everyone in this thread saying "but the platforms!", I don't disagree with you. Extensive censorship exists. But I don't believe that's the intended purpose of this tool and the metrics it collects. It doesn't measure censorship at what we would call layers 4-7 in the OSI model. It's concerned with IP reachability and layer 3. It collects valid data for that purpose.
Is this an “instantly be arrested by the secret police” app for those where such things are censored?<p>The glowing reviews would reflect quite the survivor bias.
I really wonder if anyone installs it on their machine. May be I am one off but I am Hearing about this for first time, don't recognize any of their partners.
I would love to contribute, but i do not think it is a good idea to install and run this in China…enough said. Also i already know the outcome: network is fast, everything is blocked
It's part of nixpkgs so I tried it out. I killed the process when it started writing something big to my disk. Why is it doing that?
Many of the partners are country focused but the Tor Project, Citizen Lab, and Internet Society are well known to me.
Would be cool if it also measured the latency and throughput across many different protocols to detect deviations from net neutrality.
I’d be careful to use a tool like this because it will look like you are going to these sites in question.
How is this not marketing for large websites?<p>Facebook doesn’t give a shit about censorship, beyond it means a limited audience.
Thank you for having circumcision.org on the list of websites.
Pretty strong censorship. That's why I can't even open this link in my country.
Ripe atlas have thousand of endpoint that can ping/fetch.
Related:<p>Quack: Scalable Remote Measurement of Application-Layer Censorship:<p><a href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity18/sec18-vandersloot.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...</a><p>Global Measurement of DNS Manipulation:<p><a href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity17/sec17-pearce.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...</a><p>Reachability index of Internet blockade circumvention tools:<p><a href="https://explorer.ooni.org/circumvention" rel="nofollow">https://explorer.ooni.org/circumvention</a><p>Psiphon:<p><a href="https://forge.psiphon.ca/en/what-is-psiphon" rel="nofollow">https://forge.psiphon.ca/en/what-is-psiphon</a>
"Dictatorship" is the standard forum design. Reddit, HN, X, Lemmy... All of them. And censorship is common. We literally prefer it that way. I think it's to create a solid blame trail. I think that's a necessary thing.
I think what 'we' prefer is the bad team's posts being censored, but none of our team's stuff getting censored.<p>But what we prefer and what's good for us are two drastically different things.
that part, right there. "what we prefer, and what's good for us are two drastically different things" is why this stuff will keep happening in places like my country. We're raised thinking any discomfort at all must mean something is wrong, which is not the case. if you're experiencing discomfort it means you're literally being pushed to grow past your current plateaus, both physically, and mentally. I don't know of any slogans like "a bag of potato chips a day keeps the doctor away" or "avoid pain? you gain". Chances are whatever the most uncomfortable way something could unfold for you, within reason, is probably the best thing for you to experience.<p>I actually do the opposite now. The second something aligns with my own ideals perfectly, I inherently distrust it. Because that shouldn't happen. We all think a lot alike, but also very differently. If any political party, commercial, or anything meant to be absorbed by the masses seems like it's perfectly aligned with you? It most likely is bad for you, in my experience.
to hear it from the users, ya, it's all about censoring the other team. so that's why censorship is good.<p>to hear it from the mods, it's about being responsible for what's said to the admins above. so that's why they need to have censorship power.
People flocked from other platforms to X making it the #1 iOS app in several markets for who knows how long just on the premise that it was free speech with minimal moderation.<p>"We literally prefer it that way" might apply to you and your bubble, but there's more outside of it.
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The most pervasive censorship is who and what social media companies decide to block or suppress. Even in places like China. It's deliberately harder to measure, but any censorship measurement that omits it is like measuring war casualties, but ignoring those on the front lines.
Not to minimize the impact of social media censorship, but one should really live in a country like Iran to grasp what pervasive censorship is. Most people born and raised in the relative freedoms provided in modern democratic systems have no clue what it feels like when you have such dictatorships. I say this because, looking at the current trends, we _could be_ heading in that direction, and the comparison is apt.
I'm curious what trends you see towards censorship?<p>Elon presumably being an exemplar for current trends: Twitter is unarguably <i>far</i> less censored than it was before (though censorship is still present). And Meta took note and also turned down its censorship significantly in response.<p>The Epstein files, while far less than hoped for by many, are another example of a trend towards sharing far <i>more</i> sensitive info than has been typical by past administrations.<p>There are many good examples you could point to of increased authoritarianism, but censorship in particular seems to be on the backswing, if anything.<p>Edit: oof, it's extremely concerning that the comment below was flagged
Multiple jurisdictions have tried to play the stupid games of "we'll make a dumb fuck law that creates problems for you, the website operator, and if you don't conform, we'll sinkhole you at ISP level". Platforms like Xitter and Telegram being the common early targets.<p>The "age verification" push is a big move in that direction in Western countries. "Think of the children" is an evergreen excuse for authoritarian measures.
It’s too soon for such a conclusion IMO. The pervasive Iran-like censorship I was talking about will rear its ugly head when those authoritarian regimes are established. It’s a tool and I can assure you it will be used extensively. This is nothing new really.<p>P.S. the Epstein files were just a cruel joke! I wouldn’t list it there.
>Twitter is unarguably far less censored than it was before (though censorship is still present). And Meta took note and also turned down its censorship significantly in response.<p>A publisher making editorial decisions is not censorship. You have no right to demand Twitter publish your speech. If you don't like their editorial policies, you are free to go elsewhere. You are not prevented from speaking or even prevented from reaching an audience. None of these platforms is a monopoly.<p>For my money, I would prefer to hang out somewhere where people <i>don't</i> openly celebrate the murder of my family. Would you deny me that right? If so, you are not on the side of freedom. I don't object to the existence of forums like /pol/ or today's Twitter; if you object to the existence of moderated forums like Twitter in its prime then you are the one restricting speech.<p>Today, we see flagrant examples of the literal government literally prohibiting people from speaking their minds. Literal masked thugs with literal guns are literally grabbing people off the streets. This is censorship like the Soviets did it.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu3q1eYyR1A" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu3q1eYyR1A</a><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/us/politics/trump-cnn-msnow-press-ban.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/us/politics/trump-cnn-msn...</a><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fcc-disney-abc-early-license-renewal-jimmy-kimmel-dei/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fcc-disney-abc-early-license-re...</a><p><a href="https://www.aclum.org/cases/ozturk-v-trump/" rel="nofollow">https://www.aclum.org/cases/ozturk-v-trump/</a><p><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/07/31/professor-fired-teaching-political-story-sues-college" rel="nofollow">https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/07/31/p...</a><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/caught-in-crackdown-ice-cbp-doj-trump-arrests-convictions" rel="nofollow">https://www.propublica.org/article/caught-in-crackdown-ice-c...</a><p>Twitter has certainly relaxed its policies on racism and violence in recent years, and perhaps you think that's a good thing. But point out that they're paying Nazis to post about their hatred of Jews (an undisputed fact even if you object to the framing) and they'll file SLAPP suits to try to bankrupt you. They very much go in for censorship (the real kind, backed up by guys with guns) when it benefits them.<p><a href="https://www.fire.org/news/fire-statement-x-corps-lawsuit-and-texass-investigation-media-matters-america-are-deeply" rel="nofollow">https://www.fire.org/news/fire-statement-x-corps-lawsuit-and...</a>
> A publisher making editorial decisions is not censorship. You have no right to compel other people to publish your speech. If you don't like Twitter's editorial policies, you are free to go elsewhere<p>When a social media deletes users posts because they cross a political line, it may not be <i>government</i> censorship, but it's very obviously still censorship.<p>It's very hard to take opinions like yours seriously because I know exactly how you'd react if all your HN posts were deleted because you're calling people "Nazis"
I exclusively use websites that "censor" their users. Millions upon millions of people are with me on this. Would you deny us our right to organize as we please?<p>>It's very hard to take opinions like yours seriously because I know exactly how you'd react if all your HN posts were deleted because you're calling people "Nazis"<p>If you deny that there are literal and unabashed Nazis on Twitter these days, you are wrong. I am not using the term as a pejorative; I am using it as a straightforward descriptor for people who post pictures of swastikas and SS officers, start their posts with "Hitler was right", have "1488" in their bios, and write my name (((like this))) every damn time. These sorts of people would not be offended by being called Nazis and are not shy about their desire to see me gassed to death. Twitter paid them to say these things and then tried to censor people who criticized them for it, and that's a fact.<p>Hell, I didn't even call this guy a Nazi:<p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/5n94mk74" rel="nofollow">https://tinyurl.com/5n94mk74</a>
> Would you deny us our right to organize as we please?<p>So you must <i>really</i> hate laws like the Online Safety Act and the Digital Services Act, that force platforms to censor vaguely-defined hate-speech, without a court order, or face ruinous fines. Literal government censorship, men with guns forcing private companies to silence citizens, denying you the right to organize as you please.<p>I mean, I assume you hate them. Based on your complaints about government interfering with individuals organizing as they please, you <i>should</i> hate them, but then you speak as if those laws don't exist, and you praise as exemplars of free speech and free association the very services those laws forces to censor. Maybe you just didn't know about them? And now that you do, you're going to protest these laws as fervently as you're protesting the other violations of free speech you mentioned in your posts?
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> A publisher making editorial decisions is not censorship.<p>Are you really going to conflate publishing with operating a social media platform? Regardless, if those editorial decisions are meant to suppress a viewpoint, it is censorship - government censorship is only one kind.<p>> You have no right to demand Twitter publish your speech.<p>Nobody argued that what social media do is <i>illegal</i>, only that it counts as censorship.
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> You don't know what it feels like not because you're so free, but because you agree with the ruling regime on what it considers the most important questions.<p>We don’t know what it feels like because we collectively participate and decide what should be considered and what not _periodically_ and it’s possible to change it, evidently, with various degrees and velocity by voting.<p>> I would much prefer the dictatorship-style censorship, because our censorship is far, far more effective.<p>Case in point!<p>I’ve lived under both and can guarantee you don’t know what that dictatorship you so much yearn for has in their bag for you until it’s too late.
I guess he is not yearning for dictatorship, the style of censorship is the question. Preventing access to information is bad, but likely less harmful than deception.
> Preventing access to information is bad, but likely less harmful than deception.<p>It’s a mistake to separate these. They go hand in hand and mich further as you climb up the authoritarian ladder.<p>What do you think is the style of censorship in authoritarian regimes like Iran? Do you think it’s just preventing access?
It is a shame OP's comment is flagged. Talk about censorship
Its true, all usually highly conplex world events are dumbed down to an insanely infantile level that carefully omits anything that may poorly reflect on corporate interests.<p>Also obvious is that all news is made in a short list of countries. Everywhere else the best you can hope for are terrible events.<p>You will only get opinions from a small list of talking heads.<p>One might imagine populating the media with nothing but professors. Each field has new stuff every week. In stead you get Adam Savage. The name isn't by acident.
> by voting<p>Not a single one of my examples was committed by the government (except if you count funding Carnegie Mellon and MIT). But even in cases when they <i>are</i>, voting rarely helps: <a href="https://www.woes.blog/p/tgr-democracy" rel="nofollow">https://www.woes.blog/p/tgr-democracy</a><p>> you don’t know what that dictatorship you so much yearn for<p>Re-read my sentence. I don't yearn for a dictatorship, I yearn to blunt and make obvious the current secret, subtle censorship regime.<p>> has in their bag for you<p>Is it jail?<p><i>“White Lives Matter” Slogan Earns Two Dutch Men Imprisonment for Racism</i> - <a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/netherlands-jail-for-white-lives-matter-slogan/" rel="nofollow">https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/nether...</a><p><i>Activist ran race-hate sticker library, court told</i> - <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51zn2l33r9o" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51zn2l33r9o</a> -Stickers with text like "It's OK to be White" and "We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066". For which he was later convicted and jailed - <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-68448867" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-68448867</a><p>I repeat - you agree with the regime. You're floating in the river, letting it carry you where it pleases, while telling those swimming upstream that there is no current, nothing to struggle against.<p>Edit as reply because "posting too fast":<p>> How did all of these social media companies made a 180 suddenly after power shifts in Washington?<p>None of the racist or right-wing or white nationalist subreddits got unbanned, American Renaissance is still banned off Facebook and Youtube, Facebook still explicitly bans white nationalism, and other social media ban it implicitly as "hate speech", TikTok bans "white lives matter" [1], and promised to ban even more [2] (under Trump's 1st term), while wikipedia doesn't even bother to mention that as censorship [3]. All of this is still the case under the current Washington. The only exception is Twitter, after Musk bought it - there, American Renaissance got unbanned.<p>And a 180 would imply that these things are not only unbanned, but their <i>opponents</i> are banned.<p>So if you're going to just make stuff up, i.e. lie, then I won't waste my time with you.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/tiktok-sparks-massive-backlash-after-it-bans-the-phrase-white-lives-matter-while-keeping-black-lives-matter-chinese-propaganda/ar-AA24RbWj" rel="nofollow">https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/tiktok-sparks-massive-b...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/tiktok-says-it-will-crack-down-on-anti-semitism-white-nationalism/" rel="nofollow">https://www.timesofisrael.com/tiktok-says-it-will-crack-down...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_TikTok" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_TikTok</a>
> Not a single one of my examples was committed by the government.<p>Interesting! How did all of these social media companies make a 180 suddenly after power shifts in Washington?<p>> You're floating in the river,…<p>Of course but this doesn’t have any bearing on what I said. We are talking about severity and type of censorship not its meaning.
censorship of websites is done to move more of population onto social platforms you control<p>one isn't ignoring the other
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> Measure the speed and performance of your network with the NDT test<p>This is very much in line with the likes of pokemon go, wiki landmark projects and what have you (those are nice things to have for autonomous drones/missiles to navigate only with vision when gps/cellular/starlink is actively blocked).<p>—<p>Russia banned stuff like speedtest because things like that may help “map” the network, aid NSA to model malware propagation, etc.<p>Not that this should matter when you have cisco, dell, nokia hardware, but it won’t hurt either.<p>—<p>I mean come on, some nuts even willingly install stuff like this: <a href="https://atlas.ripe.net/" rel="nofollow">https://atlas.ripe.net/</a>
That's the point of open data. Anyone can use it, and that includes the NSA or any other state actor you don't like, but it also includes anyone else. I don't see what's wrong with running things like RIPE Atlas if the data is actually open and not just given to the NSA only for their purposes.
Are you arguing for security by obscurity?