I would encourage every one of you to support the Tor project in dark times like this

We're given cake with one hand (gdpr) and backhanded with the other (art 13).

The joys of legislation.

@Condor @Linux I assume it passed?

@JoshBent yes

What happened?

@devTea A bunch of old men playing at running the world. But the world left them behind long ago...

(Just the usual pseudo-fascism the EU imposes on people. You know, auto-censoring all uploaded content if there was a suspected copyright infringement).

@devTea article 13 (the one that makes memes & url links copyrightable, and tracks their use) has been passed.

Whoever's lumped with the job of making this happen, I'm so sorry for you.

Honestly I had (and still somehow have) hope for the EU for the future of Europe even though they're far from perfect by any means, but here they severely fucked up 😢
Swiss or Norwegian VPN to recommend anyone?

@chilledfrogs If you only do HTTP, I'd use TOR... Otherwise, just buy a VPS the size you need and make your own...

@ilPinguino I like Tor but unfortunately in my experience it's somewhat slow for day-to-day usage... I might consider that if I can make sure I know precisely where the server is 😅

@chilledfrogs Digitalocean gives you a method to choose the country (and tells you the city iirc) and they allow payment by bitcoin.

They've always been good for what I needed and they're very transparent with what they share and don't share with the authorities.

@chilledfrogs https://i-83.net/ (4$~ a year) + https://github.com/Angristan/...

@chilledfrogs
You can help improving by running a relay

@ilPinguino
You can use HTTPS over tor too.

@Linux Good point

@ilPinguino Ah yes indeed, even though I got free DigitalOcean credit I forgot about that one 😅

@Linux I know, I meant both Http and https, but a lot of other protocols are blocked on some exit relays (SSH, FTP, SMTP) making Tor less than useful for my daily internet use.

Also... You should use Https on TOR. Otherwise, the exit relay can see your connection which can lead to both privacy and security issues.

@Ellis I'd hope anyone tasked with this would be moral enough to quit/leave several backdoors allowing it to get fucked

@ilPinguino
I am running a few relays actually. And also some hidden services for private use :)

@Stuxnet I doubt it, food needs to be put on the table after all. Plus the folks at facebook and google aren't moral enough to do that, and google is probably one of the few companies able to do this.

I bet they're chomping at the bit to get the contract for this. After all it's more user info for the "creepy spying" server farm I bet they have 😧

https://saveyourinternet.eu

Hope this link helps you guys contact your MEPs.

@monkehparade Already did it before, but I think that now it's too late since the MEPs voted in parliament today

@chilledfrogs "15 MEPs voted to break our Internet but the European Parliament can still #SaveYourInternet before 4-5 July"

@JoshBent Oh cool. My bad then, I'll check it out :D

@AlpineLinnix why wouldn't it?

Civil war is always an option.

The article has been passed onto the parliament. So it's not active, and we can still prevent it from happening by contacting them.

@Condor its not anarchy if you consider this:

The government should represent its people needs.
The government usually don't do it.
The people force it to.

@AlpineLinnix
I am getting 30 Mbps @ 119 ms, you don't use VPN during gaming anyway and that speed is fine enough imho

@hell I bet tinyurl and its other variants are going to be our best friends in the future.

@AlpineLinnix oh 30Mbps on wifi, on wired I get 50Mbps, it is less than half of what I have without VPN though indeed, but not as traumatizing as it sounded before, for just a 4$ per year nat vps (ignore the upload, my upload is garbage anyway)

@JoshBent
But you are still the only one using your vpn? Well, they still can figure out who is behind it then ;)

@Linux same goes with any vpn provider if any of them gets actually raided (or just physical access)

@JoshBent
Not really, and that was not my point :)

@Linux what was your point then?

@JoshBent
What is the reason you vpn? Privacy?
If so, you are the only one using the vpn server and therefore any provider can easily figure out who is connecting from that particular IP adress that is your server.

Good point! As Always @Condor

All our memes will be improved with watermarks!

@Linux if I would be worried about actual non-touchable privacy, I wouldn't use a vps, since I don't believe I am as capable as a team of engineers at mullvad or pia to make a server truly log-less, the rest of the message is slightly confusing though, since as mentioned you would need actual physical/console access to get who is connecting and even that you could drop iirc