US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/19/us-builds-website-that-will-allow-europeans-to-view-blocked-content

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ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 184d (2 replies)

INB4 this will be shut down later this year when they find out 90+% of traffic is driven by horny teens bypassing age verification to watch porn.

Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d (1 reply)

It's literally the only use for it, the only content that is usually blocked uk->us is news articles, and who wants to read half of that garbage

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 184d

To be fair, it’s not a bad idea to understand what stories an adversary is trying to spin

irate944@piefed.social · 13 pts · 184d (1 reply)

And also spy, no doubt. Considering how the recent administrations are hellbent on introducing mass surveillance

village604@adultswim.fan · 2 pts · 184d

The NSA is already capturing all Internet traffic in the US, and probably abroad too. It's not like they really need an excuse for more.

green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 184d
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Zier@fedia.io · 6 pts · 184d

The hypocrisy of the US government censoring it's own citizens and then claiming to give freedom to other nations is such a republican thing to do.

tal@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 184d (1 reply)

If the US federal government creates a website to let Europeans bypass restrictions on hate speech in Europe and some Europeans in countries that don't restrict porn create a website to let people in US states with state-level porn restrictions bypass them, I'd be pretty comfortable with the outcome.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d

Hypothetically, would this country be okay with not hosting all the redneck invest porn we have here?