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• @florian4gamers Florian Mueller on x

  Europe's freedom needs to be defended by America for the third time in history. It's also one of my predictions that a new Marshall Plan will come in the 2030s when the euro currency collapses. Impoverishment due to the dual tech/pensions gap and migration/climate cult costs.

• @abeardedpanda Sam on bluesky

  The bad news is our groyper government is gonna be running a VPN to let you view stormfront after your civilized government bans it  —  The good news is they're probably gonna keep records of who used it :) [embedded post]

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on bluesky

  Finally a home for Grok-generated CSAM the EU doesn't want you to see [embedded post]

• @paleofuture Matt Novak on bluesky

  Looks like we're getting a Big Balls sequel [embedded post]

• @waldo.net Waldo Jaquith on bluesky

  The intent here is to inject white nationalist rhetoric into countries that have otherwise prohibited it.  Also, the State Department will have a big collection of identifying information about people who may be violating their country's laws, which makes for great kompromat.  [e…

• @davidcorn David Corn on bluesky

  Would this include antisemitic content? [embedded post]

• @markjacob Mark Jacob on bluesky

  The Trump regime is promoting hate speech in European countries in a clear attempt to destabilize our supposed allies.  This is what it looks like when Putin's foreign policy and American foreign policy are the same.  [embedded post]

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  The U.S. government plans to create a website to host content that is banned in the EU so that European internet users can still view it.  —  For example, Germany bans Nazi content but now the U.S. government in the name of “free speech” will host that content so that German user…

• @parismarx.com Paris Marx on bluesky

  once again, we need to get off US tech and platforms as quickly as possible — and governments need to seriously fund the development of alternatives [embedded post]

• @lepetitereboot @lepetitereboot on bluesky

  you can't get a copy of “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” in a public school library, but the State Dept. is going to build an online portal so little German boys & girls can read Mein Kamp without drawing the scorn of their community.  —  ALRIGHT.  [embedded post]

• @tyleraking.com Tyler King on bluesky

  Under any other regime this might be considered a positive step for free speech except we are now the knowledge-suppressing nation that is trying to make it easier for people overseas to get CSAM from the rocket guy.  [embedded post]

• @mbkplus Mike Boylan-Kolchin on bluesky

  Finally, a place where I can watch Colbert interviews of political candidates [embedded post]

• @bcmerchant Brian Merchant on bluesky

  Nothing is surer to generate goodwill around the world than the US curating its very own state-sponsored 4chan board [embedded post]

• @ndrew Andrew Lawrence on bluesky

  4chan.gov [embedded post]

• @originalsp.in Jeff Yang on bluesky

  So what I'm gathering here is that the Trump admin is launching an even bigger Nazi site than X dot com  —  www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...

• @kendrawrites.com @kendrawrites.com on bluesky

  But tiktok was too toxic for it to remain owned by ByteDance.  [embedded post]

• @davidakaye David Kaye on bluesky

  the deep cynicism here is compounded by the fact that trump/rubio have decimated USG support for global freedom of expression initiatives/orgs.  —  ***total propaganda move***

• @realjuicyjay … Da Real Juicy J🔜Blerdcon on bluesky

  They won't allow American people to consume accurate black history, study women's issues, or hell promote trans people's right to exist but they want to make it their business to bypass sovereign nations' laws to give people access to bullshit?  🤔  —  Very on brand 😒 [embedded po…

• @fritzbischoff @fritzbischoff on bluesky

  US State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, a move Washington views as a way to counter censorship  —  ➡️ Bizarre …

• @marypcbuk Mary Branscombe on bluesky

  This is a Musk fever dream to try to get around online regulations and it's the US extraterritoriality that things like GDPR are partly a response to on steroids.  Really not a serious country any more [embedded post]

• @alexanotherone Alex on bluesky

  Can the EU open a website where Americans can see all the science the CDC and EPA websites have been taking down? [embedded post]

• @lottelydia Charlotte Lydia Riley on bluesky

  Holocaust denial?  They're talking about Holocaust denial, right [embedded post]

• @froomkin @froomkin on bluesky

  Cannot make this stuff up.  They're going to use freedom.gov to let people browse Nazi shit that's blocked in their home country.  [embedded post]

• @explaintrade.com Dmitry Grozoubinski on bluesky

  “Oh wow, you're in the US State Department?  That's amazing!  What do you do there?”  —  “I scour the internet for Nazi content to upload on a US government run portal which makes sure Germans can read it without using a VPN.”  —  “Would you..?”  —  “Yes, I'd call myself an Ameri…

• @tjmcintyre.com TJ McIntyre on bluesky

  What makes this doubly infuriating is that the Trump administration has just cut off funding for the Tor project, which enables people in Russia and elsewhere to circumvent genuine censorship. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...  [embedded post]

• @brainnotonyet Karl on bluesky

  Welcome to worldwide techno fascism [embedded post]

• @5-2blue Nita Cosby on bluesky

  US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere.  The US is working hard to suppress free speech here, going so far as to deporting people, but wants to create a way to give access to Nazi, antisemitic speech or even porn where it's banned. www.reuters.com/w…

• @noupside Renee DiResta on bluesky

  The Germans ban Nazi speech and Twitter and other platforms complied with this long before the DSA so is State Dept is just going to go for it and make a Nazi website? [embedded post]

• @lukesteuber.com Luke Steuber on bluesky

  what I'm hearing is Europe can shut down X now

• r/privacy r on reddit

  Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

• r/worldnews r on reddit

  US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

• r/europeanunion r on reddit

  Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

• r/europe r on reddit

  Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

• r/politics r on reddit

  US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

• r/eutech r on reddit

  Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

• @jamestitcomb James Titcomb on x

  Checked out the history of https://freedom.gov/ on the wayback machine and turns out it was last used by the Bush administration and taken down in 2005 [image]

• @as400495 Edward Coristine on x

  FREEDOM IS COMING https://freedom.gov/

• @ordinarygamers @ordinarygamers on x

  a VPN run by the government? Just get a mullvad subscription lmao

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

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• @g_slattery Gram Slattery on x

  Scoop: The State Dept is planning to launch a website, https://freedom.gov/, to help users circumvent content bans in Europe and elsewhere. Comes as admin officials have criticized Europe's speech laws. DOGE's “Big Balls” involved, per sources w @humeyra_pamuk @Simondlewis

• @developerharris Harris Rothaermel on x

  at some point this just turns into starlink flipping a switch and letting everyone bypass their local internet 1000 year american empire

• @alx @alx on x

  Government website btw [video]

• @nickadobos Nick Dobos on x

  I guarantee this will be used for spreading American propaganda and have literally nothing to do with free speech. Genius move lmfao. Imagine rewriting EVERY website on the internet with LLms to give it a pro American slant.

• @benfenton Ben Fenton on bluesky

  In an era when conflict takes place in the cybersphere, this is a profoundly hostile act.  America is not just not our ally; it is not even on our side.  —  www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...

• @petertl Peter Thal Larsen on bluesky

  The Europeans should set up a version of this so that Americans can watched cancelled Lincoln Centre performances, university lectures, and episodes of 60 Minutes. www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...

• @metacurity.com Cynthia Brumfield on bluesky

  ICYMI Musk is the guy who destroyed the security of US gov't systems and exposed all our data to adversaries.  —  www.metacurity.com/doge-linked- ...  Tech billionaires like Elon Musk will give talks to the US Tech Force, which aims to recruit roughly 1,000 software engineers  — …

• @emptywheel @emptywheel on bluesky

  Sarah Rogers is putting Ed “Big Balls” in charge of her Nazi and terrorism website.  —  www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...  [image]

• @justinhendrix Justin Hendrix on bluesky

  “For nearly two decades, the US quietly funded a global effort to keep the internet from splintering into fiefdoms run by authoritarian governments.  Now that money is seriously threatened and a large part of it is already gone, putting into jeopardy internet freedoms around the …

• r/technews r on reddit

  US funding for global internet freedom ‘effectively gutted’

• @ambdanfried Daniel Fried on x

  Will this reported new portal include materiel banned by the Russian, Chinese, Iranian, & other autocratic governments?

• @danielbshapiro Dan Shapiro on x

  This will cover Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, etc., or just our democratic allies in Europe?

• @realjartaylor Jared Taylor on x

  US planning an online portal called “ https://freedom.gov/,” where people around the world can find information banned in their own countries. An internet version of Radio Free Europe? But who will decide what goes onto “ https://freedom.gov/”?? https://www.reuters.com/...

• @kirlant Kirill Shamiev on x

  I wonder if Meduza and other blocked websites in Russia are going to be available there.... StateDep proxy for Telegram? DoS-hosted encrypted and censorship-resistant VPN provider?

• @nickkristof Nicholas Kristof on x

  One can debate whether European countries are too aggressive in banning hate speech. But does Trump really think the right response is for US taxpayers to finance a hate speech portal so that racists, misogynists, Nazis and terrorists can get their fill? https://www.reuters.com/.…

• @thorstenbenner Thorsten Benner on x

  If the State Department absolutely wants to spend US taxpayer money on a portal exhibiting Holocaust denial and hate speech banned in Germany, that's the US government's choice. Germany should be pretty chill about it. Won't make much of a difference.

• @emptywheel @emptywheel on x

  WOWOW. @UnderSecPD is going to put Big Balls—with his ties to criminal hackers—in charge of her terrorism and Nazi content site. https://www.reuters.com/... [image]

• @jimstewartson @jimstewartson on x

  The most important thing to this regime is lying to as many people at a time as possible. The US Government is a psyop.

• @ryangrim Ryan Grim on x

  The administration who literally locked a woman up for nothing other than an oped in a student newspaper criticizing Israel can stfu forever about free speech.

• @trbrtc Christiaan Triebert on x

  So, what about accessing content that is banned in the United States? (Attached screenshot shows a Telegram propaganda channel run by a militant group that's designated as a terrorist organization in the U.S., and I can't access it from New York.) [image]

• @joshrogin Josh Rogin on x

  If only the State Dept cared this much about free speech in Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.

• @jayinkyiv @jayinkyiv on x

  Trump admin going all in to assure that Russia's blitz of promoting far-right disinformation isn't blocked by the EU. A new portal https://freedom.gov/ is about to assure we have Putin, Orban, Germany's AFD and France's Le Pen filling European minds with division to rip apart [vi…

• @malinowski Tom Malinowski on x

  So is the State Department going to put Holocaust denial content (which is banned in Germany) on its website?

• @prestonjbyrne Preston Byrne on x

  UK: censor your site. 4chan: no. UK: we will fine you £20k! 4chan: fine. UK: we will fine you £520k! 4chan: kek UK: we will block you here! 4chan: whatever. America:

• @mikercarpenter Michael Carpenter on x

  Regulators in Europe block stuff like Al Qaeda recruitment ads, Neo-Nazi hate speech, and sex abuse material. The State Department is really going to post that? Why aren't they showing what the Russians, Chinese or Iranians are blocking?

• @agraybee @agraybee on x

  Just the government setting up its own hate site to destabilize our allies.

• @jurgen_nauditt Jürgen Nauditt on x

  Trump directly attacks Europe. Trump's latest attack is the culmination of his narcissistic foreign policy: a portal that claims to bring freedom but in reality exports hate, undermines alliances, and exposes his own hypocrisy. Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed champion of free

• @humeyra_pamuk Hümeyra Pamuk on x

  SCOOP: The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments, a move Washington views as a way to counter censorship, three sources familiar w/the plan tell me @Simondlewis @G_Slattery

• @daphnek Daphne Keller on bluesky

  This sounds an awful lot like giving other parts of the world VPN access to what can be seen from the U.S.?  —  In which case, shhhhh, no one tell them that this is exactly what the Hillary Clinton State Dept did 🤫  —  www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...

• @jillian Jillian C. York on bluesky

  After seeing freedom.gov I went down a little rabbithole leading to the new dietary guidelines, and all I can say is: IN THIS ECONOMY? [image]

• r/ukpolitics r on reddit

  US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe, effectively bypassing all the restrictions caused by the Online Safety Act.