Bitchute, the UK and modern censorship in action
Kit Knightly
Last week, alternative video-sharing platform BitChute announced they would no longer allow UK-based users to view content on their site.
The opening of their official statement makes the reason quite clear [you can read the whole thing here]:
After careful review and ongoing evaluation of the regulatory landscape in the United Kingdom, we regret to inform you that BitChute will be discontinuing its video sharing service for UK residents.
The introduction of the UK Online Safety Act of 2023 has brought about significant changes in the regulatory framework governing online content and community interactions. Notably, the Act contains sweeping provisions and onerous corrective measures with respect to content moderation and enforcement.
In particular, the broad enforcement powers granted to the regulator of communication services, Ofcom, have raised concerns regarding the open-ended and unpredictable nature of regulatory compliance for our platform.
The UK’s Online Safety Act officially came into force on March 13th, and has already been used to target social media platform Gab to the tune of 20 million dollars.
BitChute has every reason to believe they could be next. It has been an establishment bugbear since its inception, with semi-regular hit pieces claiming it is a site “where neo-Nazis can view terror atrocities”, that it “thrives on misinformation and hate” or is spreading “Kremlin-backed” propaganda.
And now it’s gone, from the UK at least.
What we’re seeing here is the first example of the kind of manipulative, indirect censorship OffG (and many others) have been warning of for quite some time.
There was no order, no Jack boots, no smashed servers and seized hard drives. Instead, the Online Safety Act simply makes the regulatory environment so hostile that producing – or even hosting – anti-establishment content is simply not worth the risk.
This works as a mutually beneficial agreement between the social media giants and the state.
Facebook, Google, YouTube et al. are likely bracketed under the OSA’s “recognised publishers” clause, and therefore exempt from “false communication offenses”. Even if they’re not, they have the resources and revenues to handle fines and legal fees, when their potential rival start-ups do not.
Essentially, the state will go after the small social media platforms to protect the tech giant monopoly, and then the social media giants pay back the favour by policing free speech.
BitChute is the first to go, it likely won’t be the last.
…might be time to invest in a decent VPN service.
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I tried searching anonymously on Opera and it works in the North of Scotland.
Yandex.ru is also ok because they leave all other agencies out……………but KGB.
KGB cant do a shit in West because West leave all agencies……but KGB, into your computer……..LOL.
See how smarty smarty papa did it again with small means? Fixed.
A lot of the Bitchute videos are on the peer to peer network called “Qortal”.
Let’s see them stop that one LOL.
Health Ranger CIA owned”Brighteon” is not censored nor is Alex Jones Cia_mosad_m15 funded ”banned” network.
Twiiterx will never get censored like many other WordPress blogs who scream they’ve been censored as they all serve an purpose to keep the HOAXiversaries, Media Fakery, and the “PSYOP Entertainment Complex” alive by claiming it is mostly all real like Jesus or history.
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One of the most dangerous things anyone can do is to think “It can’t happen here”. Radical policies used by the ‘free world’ tend to get get test driven in the UK first because its smaller, self-contained and lacks the legal protections inherent in a written Constitution. This allows the bugs to be fixed and wrinkles ironed out before its applied elsewhere (like the US). We’ve seen this with facial recognition and its offshoot ANPR here in the US. Technical limitations were gradually overcome (our license plates are not specifically designed to be machine readable unlike those in the UK, for example) while the 4th. Amendment issues were figured out. The result is a contemporary tsunami of surveillance that’s only limited by the majority of cost effective equipment suppliers being Chinese. This “Online Safety” act is in the same vein — its targets are vague (although, for public consumption, the mantra “Will Somebody Think Of The Children!” is trotted out) and its enforcement draconian. It is carefully designed so that only large scale corporations that have existing liaisons with government, a commitment to censorship and deep pockets (“just in case”) can prosper. Everyone else will live on a knife edge. Obviously if your site’s content is anodyne enough (hobbies, not opinions) you’ll probably be OK but it would be prudent to carry insurance (requiring that site to be monetized through the Big Tech surveillance and ad networks) and that insurance will likely require the site owner to adhere to agreed ‘standards’ if they are to retain insurance protection. Yielding a win/win for government and big business that doesn’t require the government to expend any resources on enforcement outside the occasional show trial to remind people of who’s boss.
We’re learning in the US just how fast and how far censorship can go without the government being directly involved regardless of any protections afforded by our Bill of Rights. The trick is to go for the power centers — bringing law firms to heel with “the power of the purse” to not only make them toe the government’s line but to inhibit their willingness to take on challenges to government policy (and, worse, to initiate pro bono work for causes — i.e. against people — they don’t like).
ANPR was supposed to be used to detect people without tax / insurance / MOT. Instead it was used to track all vehicle movements.
More sinister than that, it is used to stop and harass known criminals. “What’s wrong with that?” you may cry. What’s wrong is that these people have paid their dues and may be going about their legal business. They are now being harassed for being alive, not for any wrongdoing. It’s wrong!
Then the net widened. Political opposition are now targetted. Paul Golding / Britain First are frequently stopped on the road and held at the roadside for an hour or so before being allowed to continue – if they are lucky. Sometimes their vans are seized or police persuade insurance companies to cancel insurance.
Does anyone expect that treatment to be reserved for just Britain First? Next up Reform? Or maybe people known to watch Bitchute or use VPNs? Drivers who refuel more than once a week? There’s no limit to who they can abuse.
Most of us already knew what the miscreants who now run the UK are doing with free speech. I wish Kit had dealt with the following two issues.
1) For the moment, the First Amendment still rules in the USA. How was Bitchute, based in the USA, in legal jeopardy from UK fines?
2) Kit implies in his final sentence that a good VPN would circumvent the UK cutoff issue. As this must be so obvious to the morons that crafted this “law” and agency, do they have a plan to circumvent VPN’s? If so, what? Or do they just hope that most Brits who have used Bitchute in the past will be too lazy or stupid to get a VPN? I find this unlikely. So what does this say about the intelligence of the Brit elites?
Using a VPN means you have something to hide?
My VPN also protects me from virus’s.
I am so protected by my Norton Reliable Antivirus Software! works just like a vaccine.
Bitchute being censored by the U.K is multilayered as they all serve an purpose to keep the HOAXiversaries, Media Fakery, and the “PSYOP Entertainment Complex” alive and Bitchute serves that purpose as they sold out during covid and keeps all media addicts online digitaleyed addicted.
I would hope your VPN protects you better than a vaccine both against a chip virus analog and unwarranted search and seizure.
As to Bitchute, my experience with them is that they ran the most “hated” analysts during 2020 in regards to the scamdemic, who expressed the real truth well outside the Overton window of mind control. Among them were David Icke and Andrew Kaufman MD who both presented the whole thing as a total, malevolent scam as SARS-CoV-2 did not exist in the physical universe and Covid-19 was just the rebranded flu which miraculously disappeared from the health statistics. As a chemistry major from many decades ago, Kaufman got me to actually read the methodology of these “peered reviewed POS” which were all based on the most obvious pretzel logic.
“Adolescence” has sparked off a sparking off of sparks:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm3x92mpdxo
In short – Everyone in the whole world! Everyone in the whole world ….what?
Oh hang on a mo! (Consults script) Yes! Everyone in the whole world is saying that boys are refusing to talk to teachers and are writing essays about how they love Evil Andrew Tate and …. misogyny misogyny EEEVIL! AAAARGH!
And if that desperate fart in a cow shed doesn’t impress you, how about this?:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74z04j23pwo
Yes it’s taken a gazillion years for the Supreme Court to decide that woman are women. But the poor persecuted community of unicorns … sorry, “transpeople”, are under attack!
And the jubilant ones celebrating this victory of re-establishing the fucking obvious don’t seem to have twigged that the whole trans excrement has already achieved its goal i.e. that it had a “sell by” date already programmed in whereby the devastation already evident had been scripted. And in any case, the bullshit bandwagon is still there for “Round 2”. (Or is that Round 102?)
I already told you guys 20 years ago that girls wants muscles. To get girls, young men get muscles. Natural logical rational biological reality! https://youtu.be/Nu93E6vkwL8.
But…as Trump support Andrew Tate against many
hoo…..women’s case demanding money from Tate, I am against it.Because I, as you know, turned around and are now against Trump to get more thumbs up!
Have to do everything myself.
Why the yUcK establishment needs censorship: “They KNEW!” says a police whistleblower about the “top” echelon.
According to me, the BBC is “where Palestinians can view terror atrocities”, and that it “thrives on lies, misinformation, disinformation, malinformation and hatred of Trump, Jews, Christians and Free Speech” and is spreading “Starmer-backed” propaganda and censorship.
Trump, Jews and Christians.
Please all of the above help me Im lost?
The BBC pretends to be anti Israel in exactly the same way it pretends to be anti UK government. Every anti gov / anti juice story is an (extremely) limited hangout. They report what is already widely known and angering the public, to give the illusion of impartiality.
I see Israeli companies slowly taking over our NHS. Now they are moving into mental health using AI to keep us all happy,,remotely.
If you wanted to target cull without harming others, including yourself, or the environment, vaccines are the tool. Take that jab, which bypasses all your natural defense mechanisms, including blood blood-brain barrier, and yahoo a 10,000% rise in Autism, mental health, autoimmune, and alergy issues.
It was obvious they couldnt hide in the shadows much longer.
Which culture loves death?
This one?:
https://x.com/trackingisrael/status/1912891142246445085
Socialism?
The Christian and Muslim one’s, amongst others.
The gullible/psychopathic a-holes imagine they’ll leave all their worldly troubles behind when transported to a big house with many mansions and the others are salivating over houris (heavenly virgins) as a reward.
Humanity, the only real virus.
Keep believing that while marching steadily in lock step to oblivion. Not so much “Triumph of the Will” as “Triumph of Propaganda” (essentially the same thing?).
Why do leftists and gays always get so upset when we insinuate they are leftist and gays?
Utterly Rant Worthy.
Q:Dos2>>>CEO<<<Moral*1*
Q.C. Quantum Computing? Quality Control?
Queen’s Councillors’ ? Quantitative Censorship ?
QUAGMIRE COMPUTING , questionable constables unQuestionably corrupted:
QED ‘2d’ Core of Fomenting False Binary awareness.
Rising@Off-G
C.OFF-Bin’
Quantitatively
Censored.
Well, I never … 😂
Happy Easter, to one & all.
Rising, like a Q.C.@A&E.
Not an Accident.
Good job, Kit…
Balky
Remember, one of the first thing this government did was to free up space in prisons.
Some of us will be lucky enough to look back on this period in British history with a shudder and a shake of the head.
Only the toughest criminals and migrants were released. Congratulations! Now you will build your new reset back better yes?
Do you ever wonder if there were a minority in the 1930s/40s who knew the WWII narrative was absolute BS? And they hoped that one day in the(ir) future the lies would fall aside and the truth would become mainstream?
I do.
For sure.
I feel isolated now. God knows how those poor buggers felt.
“soon we’ll be needing that extra space for political offenders”, life imitates art
Makes me wonder what all those empty apartment buildings in China are really for.
just use a vpn i know there trying to block VPNs but they haven’t managed to do so yet id advise people to avoid tor, though
Why avoid Tor?
TOR is pretty slow (for me) and was allegedly set up by the authorities to easily identify and monitor undesirables.
Any evidence for this ?
No. Just take the word of internet ‘experts’ that Tor (and any other encrypted app for that matter) has a back door.
I am, in agreement in this particular case, with one of the 12 Apostles.
Well, FWIW, Wikipedia says it was created by U.S. Navy. What are the odds the DoD can’t at least monitor it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)
“..Wikepedia says..”
Is GCHQ Embedded in Wikipedia? – Craig Murray
I would search for another source.
tor was invented by the US Navy i cant prove it but its bloody good guess that somthing invented by an arm of usa deep state probably has a backdoor in it the other thing is the government can tell that your using and as its main clientele are drug dealers, arms dealers, and pedos you will be suspected of being one of those things or possibly all 3
the story I heard about The Onion Router is that it was created by US Naval Intelligence for espionage purposes, the idea being to invite a lot of non-spies to this encrypted party thereby creating a chaotic distraction for those trying to snoop on the classified communication of the actual spooks
In the UK , your VPN goes though your home router which has its own unique identity to your provider so they know it is used by you from your address. Your provider is required,by law, to store what you do on the internet for a period of time, then delete. A VPN does nothing to prevent this.
Just because a VPN lets you access some foreign TV or web sites, it does not mean it does not know the source (your router) .Smoke and mirrors.. Also a nice little earner
i dont want it to hide what im doing i only to access sites that are not available in the uk im not really that bothered if the government knows im doing it as far as i know its not a crime Even if it was there would be to many people to arrest The fact is there is no certain way of hiding what you’re doing other than the government cant watch everybody 24 7 even with new tech
I downloaded Opera and selected browse anonymously.. bingo, I can see bitchute now.
If you use a VPN, your ISP only knows that you are using the VPN. They have no idea what websites you are using via that VPN.
The worst they can do is inform the government that you’ve been a very naughty boy by evading monitoring. That will be a problem in the UK one day.
Try not to use a VPN that keeps records and can be ordered to reveal those records to your govt.
So especially avoid any VPN written by, operated by, or bought out by Israel.
Ok. Thanks I will avoid those…lol
Unlawful laws made by an unlawful government. Isn’t it more interesting to explain that these laws are not valid at all?
A race is now in effect – will a critical mass open those eyes wide shut, or will the shutters be pulled down before that can happen? Or will the smorgasbord of football, Strictly, scratchcards & porn, mean that most don’t even notice that they’re junkies?
Comments on a postcard…etc..
Well, ya know, I’m from the other side of the pond, but:
“In the United Kingdom
The underground press offered a platform to the socially impotent and mirrored the changing way of life in the UK underground.
In London, Barry Miles, John Hopkins, and others produced International Times from October 1966 which, following legal threats from The Times newspaper was renamed IT.
Richard Neville arrived in London from Australia, where he had edited Oz (1963 to 1969). He launched a British version (1967 to 1973), which was A4 (as opposed to IT‘s broadsheet format). Very quickly, the relaunched Oz shed its more austere satire magazine image and became a mouthpiece of the underground. It was the most colourful and visually adventurous of the alternative press (sometimes to the point of near-illegibility), with designers like Martin Sharp.
Other publications followed, such as Friends (later Frendz), based in the Ladbroke Grove area of London; Ink, which was more overtly political; and Gandalf’s Garden which espoused the mystic path.” Wikipedia
The show will go on. We will find a way.
Just saying if it has anything to do with pornography and naked hookers, I will seek to ban that magazine too. As I am
fromon the government’s side in that question.Ah! they found their “hook,” I see. Your bugaboo is porno.
Here’s a hint: being “on the government’s side” about anything is usually/always a big mistake. Governments play on people’s idea of what should or shouldn’t be allowed.
Besides, if you take down porno, government functionaries might just shut the whole bloody thing down since there’s nothing left there for them to watch.
They can still play free Solitaire. https://solitaired.com/ . Wont cost you and them a dime.
Nope, Rolling Stone.
Banned! And dont call it ‘modern-censorship’ my dear colleagues and fellowmen. I know all about the semantics behind yr big blue eyes..
the British isles are bigger than Alcatraz or Devils island: which one will be worst, Scotland, Ireland or England?
Wales is in the lead
They’ve had Labour eating out their insides for ages.
A vision of the future for the rest of UK.
A land where bicycles can go faster than cars!
The UK has been sinking with gradually deteriorating leadership. Ever since WW2, the UK prime ministers have been kissing US ass, and now the USA is drowning, the UK is going down with them. While the USA turns on its allies, issuing tariff threats, the UK is turning on its own people.
The main reason for the decline is the sychophantic people who lead the country, they want favours rather than build industry. Look at how finance has taken over the UK, old engineering industries are dead, some of the new engineering industries are equal to the best in the world, but the leadership cannot pull themselves out of that USA ass.
Look at Tony Blair, a complete idiot and sychophant, sure he had a charm that the people voted for, but he did nothing for the UK, taking us into Iraq because the USA ass wanted that. Thatcher too, those were the days when the USA’s poodle trope first started, she was so far up Reagans arse that all you could see were the high heels.
The UK government is hopeless, look at the project to write a software package for the NHS, 12bn thown in the bin. Now look at that idiot Starmer, trying to get involved in Ukraine to prove that the UK is still relevant in this world. Then we saw him in Washington, is it even possible to have a limper dick sitting next to Trump? Embarrassing.
Whoever has been promoting the UK’s leadership into government is either totally inept, or is deliberately trying to destroy the UK, or is willing to destroy the UK as collateral damage in their persuit of their own interests. I suspect that the later is the case.
The solution to Britain’s problems is to let in a LOT more Africans, middle easterns, Asians, Indians and Pakistanis. It’s the only way for Britain to grow.
You are correct. In most cities, there would be empty streets without immigrants.
Does this mean we are being culled and just dont realise it yet?
Vaccines must be doing their job, right?
The pipe smoking British upper class cant live without colonial workers to do the shit jobs.
The coal factories are gone, Charles Dickens is gone. Karl Marx is gone, but The Princess Diana story is here to stay together with The JFK thing.
It has been so in 300 years so whats the problem? https://youtu.be/RrSUcSnWpxQ
UK government continues to pay lip service to pretending they care about the country, but they can’t be arsed to sound convincing any more. They regurgitate hollow words. It’s like having a person stabbing you while saying “I’m not hurting you, I care deeply about your wellbeing.”
All part of the demoralisation phase. I expect full-on brutality by 2030. Most people’s heads will spin with confusion.
Finance took over a long time ago when Charles 2 surrendered the right to create money to independent private actors. It’s conjectured that the crown jewels are still in hock to the City; the corporation that was probably influential in Norman Invasion.
Do you think that those running this world give a toss about the US or UK or anywhere for that matter? Their allegiance is to their wallet.
They could live anywhere they like.
The US is a tool of those psycho bstrds who have manipulated and deceived us all. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing and we are on the dinner plate.
Its just like a Bond movie only 007 works for them.
Bond… propaganda all along. Sigh.
There are some very bright analysts who maintain that the City of London is still the head of the snake, even more so than the BIS, and about the time of the start of WW I, it decided to control all aspects of rising USA power as the muscle to maintain their global hegemony. I would say that the best of these analysts is Alex Krainer, and besides a paid subscription to his substack, his ideas in this respect have been laid out in video interviews with Dialogue Works which strangely is still carried on youtube.
It’s just a base of operations, they have no allegiance to or love of any location.
Since all their nefarious work can be done remotely these days, based nowhere but in The Cloud, I expect the City of London and similar places to slowly fizzle out and disappear like Brigadoon.
They won’t hang around in the centre of the rotting, infected corpse of London. I’m already seeing the decay of London’s beautiful old buildings accelerate at a frightening pace.
I’m starting to suspect that the graffiti plastered on every unprotected building is arranged by the government to tag the premises for destruction.
MBGA – Make Britain Great Again ?
Great Britain – Chihuahua That Thinks It’s A Lion
https://www.rt.com/news/615888-chihuahua-that-thinks-its-lion
For those RT censured: https://www.sott.net/article/499084-A-chihuahua-that-thinks-its-a-lion-The-decline-of-Britain .
Welcome to the Google Gulag.
Goolag.
The pincer movement to entrap ‘humanity’ continues unabated: legislation to remove the outliers in conjunction with increasing, unchecked dictatorial creep in the form of monopolistic corporate enterprise, hidden beneath the surface of social reform.
Totalitarianism: Best Great Britain Memes
https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/totalitarianism-best-great-britain-memes
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This is symptomatic of the last, dying gasps of a once huge – I won’t use the word ‘great’ – empire.
The problem is this has been said quite many times, and they are still alive behind the wall.
I wrote to my government and told them to ban Pink Floyd that they were undermining our fine upper class society, but they wrote back that that they had everything under control.
So they sometimes just let people think they are gasping the last oxygen, now they have been beaten, but they are too experienced and intelligent to bother over a stupid LP record. https://yandex.ru/video/preview/1276829229223432146
After posting something anti-establishment, two Humberside Police officers came to “Check my thinking”. So I pretended to “think correctly”. They then left my house satisfied that I did not commit a ‘thought crime’.
Were you whining clima change and walked around in high heel?
Anti Semitism is censorship.
Anti Semitism news seems to have dribbled away as the Gaza genocide continues.
The Zionists dont seem to care about Anti Semitism anymore? I wonder if its because they are now not concerned that the obvious control of Governments, Banking and the Media may cause them a problem.
These sick individuals supporting Israel, control all powerful institutions in the West and probably East, North and South as well, so Anti Semitism is not as important. Because they think there is fk all we can do.
Bitchute was and I believe still is a UK registered company, so no wonder the directors also from the UK are getting brown trousers, if we are to believe that they are the real deal. It also begs the question why register BC in the UK in the first place?
In the past BC has censored content at the behest of ‘Hope not Hate’ well before the Online Safety Bill.
There is something about BC that raises red flags for me. It seems like a honeypot with commenters – probably bots and agents – saying the most outrageous stuff either to tar the content creators with the same brush or to ‘out’ those members of the public who decide to join in with the behaviour. In addition there are content creators that seem like agents stirring the pot and giving a bad name to alternative media and encouraging censorship through their antics. If justification was needed for censorship, by those members of the public who think it is about protecting the public, then BC is a good case study….conveniently so.
It makes me wonder if it is a genuine free speech alternative platform or something else.
I stopped using Bitchute when they went through a period of aggressively pushing videos attacking Christianity and glorifying Islam. Turns out the main guy behind it is a muslim, so his site, his rules.
Fine by me, but I wasn’t going to be a part of it.
PS I’m an atheist but I know a nasty agenda when I see it.
It is to help you! Its to survive when we go off grid on our own farmland without the Police state and without our fokking Government. Practise 5 times a day, and you will survive! https://yandex.ru/video/preview/8576821816397127046 .
I think there is a bureaucratic organization committed to preventing paradise, but it was a good idea.
I live in London so I plan to go off-grid in my basement. I will live off mushrooms and stay very quiet. Maybe the government won’t hunt me down.
Like most humans, mushrooms like being fed shit and kept in the dark.
Mr Raymond Noel Vahey? Is Muslim? Oh…
“Raymond Noel Vahey”
Did I say founder or CEO? No I did not.
At the time I left the site was sucking up to its Muslim financial backer big time. I guess they have stopped doing that, leaving people like you in the dark.
But like I said. Their site their rules. I just won’t be a part of it.
They could have been as pro-Islam as they liked and I would have stayed. It was their blatant systemic attack on Christianity at the time that made me leave.
Happens on this site too.
Article without payment barrier https://archive.is/7Gpgc
What he said.
Great link. Thank you.
Yes the link is ok. Worth the click.
BUT, photos dont lie. Evil tongues says all poaching in Africa stopped in the lock down period, but started again when the white tourists from West were allowed to travel again..
Is this you Bob?
I have never killed an animal in my life, murdered a few carrots though….
Dont lie.
Mosquitoes, Ants, snails, by yr own bloody hands.
Chickens, Fish, Ox, lamb, swine, you paid mercenaries to kill them for yr.
Guilty as charged…
How long before the UK makes it illegal to use a VPN?
Been wondering the same thing for years. Seems like VPNs are getting cheaper and cheaper and are now included with standard anti virus software. My new and improved routers have VPN software embedded.
My router has VPN software, but if the connection is lost it reverts to a normal internet connection and doesn’t give any warning. So that feature is worse than useless, it gives a false sense of security.
I currently use Proton VPN on my phone. Since my Internet connection is dog slow, I can use the free version as much as I like without ever noticing when it restricts bandwidth (if it ever does – I genuinely don’t know!) As a bonus you get a secure Proton email account, which I don’t need but it’s nice to know I have it if I need it.
Use Proton VPN. You can always see it is active at the top of the page. No dropping out so far.
Indeed. It took me a while to realise that in Android the “key” icon in the notification bar meant it wasn’t connected, but it is always keeping you informed. And you can always enable “Block connections without VPN” (aka kill switch) to be on the safe side. I prefer to leave that setting off so I can swiftly turn VPN on/off as needed.
But I get none of that if I use my router set up to VPN via Proton. And it had left me exposed without indication when I tried it out. It was only by chance that I went into router configuration and saw the problem.
doesn’t give any warning
To quote Microsoft, it’s a feature, not a bug.
Not needed if you used Linux.
And you trust your vendor, right?
Too much money involved IMO.
Indeed. However, we have more to fear from our own government than from any foreign government or private business. So using a VPN will at worst achieve nothing (gov is controlling it), or at best leave me better off. It can’t make things worse. THIS is what made me start using a VPN, quite recently. My government’s grotesque hatred of its own people made it necessary.
I’m not suggesting we drop our guard. Using a VPN is fine for passing certain restrictions but it doesn’t give you an internet invisibility cloak. Education about how these tools work, their pro’s and cons etc is what is needed.
Most of all, do you trust the vendor of these tools.
Will Linux resolve everything? Excuse my lack of knowledge within the area.
Marital problems, yes. Wars, no.
Sounds ok. Wars can be resolved.
I trust them to not send the problem to my door, it’s worth the $20 a month to send them on a wild goose chase for a change.
“Most of all, do you trust the vendor of these tools.”
That’s a rhetorical question but I’ll answer anyway. Yes, I do have (limited) trust in Proton for now.
You can never have 100% trust in anyone or anything though.
I agree, both hardware and software are full of holes.
Zero trust is the way I like to operate.
Yes, that’s what I’m waiting, not hoping, for too. Then it’s game over, online at least.
“……might be time to invest in a decent VPN service”
Please remember that next time you consider implementing Cloudflare “protection” because of an “attack”.
At least one anti-virus faked such attacks.
Still easy to find the truth. Look and listen to what the Mainstream News is saying and believe the opposite.
Good advice. It made me laugh (lol). But I haven’t listened to any of that for years. I just watch what they do.
How much longer before VPNs become illegal?
Why make them illegal when they can be captured?
Proton VPN enforces a strict no-logs policy to maintain your privacy. It never logs what you do online or keeps any metadata about your activity. Also, the fact that its servers are 100% RAM-based ensures that there’s no way to store your data long-term.
Proton VPN’s no-logs policy was even tested in 2019 when the company was ordered to turn over logs to help identify a user in a legal case. However, the company couldn’t comply, as such logs didn’t exist.
Proton is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, meaning it’s outside the 5/9/14-Eyes alliance’s jurisdiction. Also, Switzerland has some of the strongest digital protection and privacy laws in the world, meaning Proton has no obligations to log your data.
It’s likely to be around for a while, especially these days when many people have to work from home. Businesses MUST have VPN protection
Orr-topic but … “something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
https://global.espreso.tv/military-news-denmark-to-deploy-soldiers-for-training-courses-in-ukraine
I recommend using degoogled phone. Run Graphene or something similar. Use a VPN and a DNS. Never allow cookies and always use burner email addresses when you sign up anything. I’ve never paid for Spotify. I just use burner email addresses to sign up for the free trial every 3 months. It takes a bit of effort to opt out of the digital control grid but its worth it.
I, for one, do not want to use veiling software in order to hurt content creators by pirating their content.
I use VPN only because I do not trust our (or any) government to not eventually “punish” us for seeking truthful content and freely expressing opinion or sharing information.
Well then, it’s time for the rise of VPNs for normies. The centralised ones at first, naturally, that sponsor all the GooTubers. Those VPNs harvest and sell your data, logs, and cooperate with authorities for snooping. Then there are the opensource decentralised VPNs, which will have one hell of a run as this Technocracy gets dialed up to eleven.
Isnt it possible to just be outside all this? Fock the Internet and all flat-screens.
“Its my llife and I am not gonna live forever, I just wanna live when Im alive”!
It’s now or never! 🙂
Obviously I’m nor defending the UK legislation in the slightest – but this does appear connected to the trade/tariffs issue, for example:
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/starmer-trump-trade-musk-vance-b2734132.html
No trade deal = prices go up = win.
Trade deal = Special Relationship crowing and case for Free Trade re-stated = win. Prices go up anyway because of some other reason.
A classic double -bind.
Oh, and there’s a strike expected at Gatwick. When was the last Easter without major disruption in some form of UK transport?
The UK censorship juggernaut was hurling along and accelerating even before Trump got back in.
The UK/EU really are embracing all the worst excesses of the USSR.
Our days of laughing at “inferior” nations are well and truly over.
True. BUT……you must admit that first when Trump got into office, it finally came up to surface.
Therefore its Trump’s fault, and not Gordon
Clown’sBrown’s and Tommy Blare’s and our fault. Trump’s fault! Get it?I don’t think you need ‘a good’ VPN service unless you have something to hide [I don’t]. It just needs to allow bitchute to say they didn’t know you were UK based so that they can allow you to connect.They have deniability if they don’t know where you are.
You have a point, but you’ve worded it badly.
An untrustworthy VPN will indeed circumvent national restrictions.
“Good” VPNs don’t keep user logs, and this is what you need if you are forward-looking. The time may soon come when merely viewing “prohibited” content will earn you a visit from your local constable, etc.
PS: They have already tried this in Brazil.
What is it they have already tried in Brazil, and what “bureaucratic cash register”are you talking in smoke rings about?
I anticipate you all three are from the same favela, talking the same slang bs.
This is a cash register, just to avoid any new doubts:
So another bureaucratic cash register sponsored by the taxpayer again.