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I know I could Google it, but I’ll ask here, because others may be afraid to ask: what is a tankie? I’m seeing that phrase a lot, but I guess I’m getting old, because I missed the rising of that phrase.
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I’d assume it’s someone who supports communism. It’s likely a reference to the infamous Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, when the Chinese government used tanks to suppress protestors in the square.
The reason it’s prominent on Lemmy is because the main dev of the software used to run Lemmy apparently supports communism.
It should be noted, though, that that last sentence ultimately doesn’t matter since the the software is open-source. Should the software become an issue, someone else can simply start developing the Lemmy software instead. Additionally, because it’s open-source, everyone can create or join a Lemmy instance instead of using the dev’s own lemmy.ml instance.
Not really, it’s more people who identify as Marxist-Leninists or leftist in general who deny, downplay, or outright praise the genocidal actions of totalitarian regimes like the USSR, the PRC, etc, and/or who today will support countries like Russia in the ukraine-russia conflict (explicitly or more overtly) simply because they hate the US and NATO.
The origins actually predate Tiananmen square, but I can’t exactly remember if it was people who praised the actions of the USSR during the Prague spring or the Hungarian revolution.
Ah, thanks for the correction. I just knew that Marxist-Leninism was somehow related to Communism, and that Communist China used tanks to suppress the protests in Tiananmen Square.
Think of the children
Has already happened with laws requiring identification of users who want to visit porn sites (Utah)
Remember: If you’re not doing anything bad, you have nothing to hide! Cryptocurrencies and VPNs are used only by criminals xD
A classic move by authoritarian tyrants, suppress the spread of information, outlaw the free exchange of ideas.
This is why Tor and other privacy preserving technology is so important. People’s lives and wellbeing depend on them. We must not forget there are people in this world who are being harassed, tortured, and killed because they dare to question their government, dare to criticize their leaders, dare to think for themselves.
“While the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.” -V for Vendetta
Actually this isn’t much different from extreme control over financial transactions in civilzed parts of the world. Rather it’s just natural extension of that control, which is scary
Lmao Russia moment.
Afraid of a civilian uprising. Also RIP classic warez “.ru” pages like old-game.
I expect Western governments are looking at this and saying “gee, I wish we had that”.
The US is already trying to do it with KOSA
Expect this to come to the EU in a few years.
Why? If anything the EU tends towards pro-privacy/anti-authoritarianism and has mostly avoided this kind of security theater seen in other countries.
Chat control though
It will happen first in the USA, UK and Australia before all the EU countries approve such bullshit.
But you see, it is only bad if it is done by authoritarian regimes, but we are states of law and democracy, so there is nothing bad about it. And we are states of law because trust me bro
-European conservatives and “social democrats”
The UK conservatives aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. They have now just gone full on dictatorship energy.
Fortunately they are a bunch of incompetents who fight amongst themselves like a sack of cats. Otherwise they might actually represent threat.
Becareful that’s what everyone in the US thought, and then we got Trump and the Q brigade taking down our democracy.
Republicans would love the freedumb of living in Russia
welp. they have to catch up with north korea eventually
Piracy is allowed there anyway since the war the will not punish it, they even promote it with an emergent law
Given how easy it is to set up a Docker-based wireguard server on a small remote VM, I suspect this will achieve very little.
Deep packet inspection is a thing, AFAIK people in China uses a software called v2ray to counter that.
You can’t inspect encrypted packets, what China does is network traffic analysis - examining headers and figuring out patterns based on metadata. They don’t care much about what’s being transmitted if using a VPN alone is enough to land you in trouble.
i think US carriers do the same thing to counter unauthorized hotspotting so even using a VPN didnt help
Excuse my ignorance, but in this case what would be the benefit of having the wireguard server run inside a Docker? Wouldn’t running the server directly on the remote VM achieve the same result?
Yeah it would do the same thing. Using Docker just makes it easier and faster to deploy
Exactly. Setting it up via Docker is like a 2 minute operation.
I run everything on bare metal the way god intended
What’s the difference?
It would be better to use a time gated version of Manx to produce a stack elevated free server.
Ban them from Twitter while you’re at it
Nah the head honcho is a big fan of ol’ Puuts
What are you basing this on? At the start of the war he was challenging Putin for a MMA match and he lets Ukrainians use Starlink. Am I missing something?
Starlink has already cut access to front line Ukrainians before, forcing them to hold off on advancing due to lack of communication.
Starlink has benefitted immensely from the war, so it’s not a purely humanitarian desire to help Ukrainians. Free publicity and a guaranteed market share when only a handful of people ever even heard of Starlink is what they were after, IMO.
This still leaves my question unaswered. What has he done to indicate that he’s pro-Putin? I’m genuinely asking.
Putin saw Arkansas, Virginia, Utah, and Mississippi were getting ahead of killing anonymity online and couldn’t let that happen.
With the military Russia brought to Ukraine, they might also be running old ass verification tech that might just be key gen capable.
Man, this makes me rethink my whole idea of online anonymity.
There’s a lot of reasons why requiring identity verification could be a good thing, but holy shit now I realize how quickly something like that could slip into authoritarianism.
I still think we need a identity verification service for things like online games and social media (to thwart ban evasion), but it has to be something decentralized.
It doesn’t have to be decentralized, it has to be anonymous. You want to have an online identity in the number of one per citizen, but not tied to the real identities.
There’s a way to do this by using regular digital ID and anonymizing it with zero-knowledge cryptography, but AFAIK noone tried this yet
🤷♂️ and you talking about Russian propaganda, while doing the same
Uh?
