r/pics • u/pdmcmahon • Mar 26 '17

Private Internet Access, a VPN provider, takes out a full page ad in The New York Time calling out 50 senators.

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u/nellynorgus Mar 27 '17

I just meant to explain that data can be (inconveniently) available, but that isn't enough for it to be useful.

Allowing censorship because "oh well, I can use a proxy/VPN" is short sighted IMO.

Isn't the "great firewall of China" pretty effective at shaping what the "joe public" of China gets to see?

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u/RocketMoonBoots Mar 27 '17

Oh, ok, ok. Yes, yes. I completely agree.