alt Hacker NewsCan someone ELI5 how it actually works?
Say I'm a UK citizen with advanced glioblastoma (implying loss of faculties, seizures, and pain; no cure, and things to worsen before eventually passing away, possibly some time from now). Suppose I wish to view websites on euthanasia options, but am blocked from doing so by the UK's Online Safety Act.
How does/will Freedom.gov help? (is it essentially a free VPN?)
Also, as others have pointed out, couldn't the censoring government simply block access to freedom.gov?
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And since euthanasia is not favoured by the religious right in the US (I assume here for sake of argument) it would be filtered by VPN / DNS anyway in the VPN
It probably won't work. At least, it won't do anything interesting. It exists mostly to make Trump look anti-woke, and maybe to subvert other countries' policy a little bit.
This is not an administration that does technological innovation. Trump's "social media site" started as just rebranded Mastodon.
According to Reuters, it will essentially be a free VPN.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-...