Privacy

38589 readers

357 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

MPA presses for VPNs to have a role in anti-piracy row in Europe (www.techradar.com)

submitted 2 days ago by deinu@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Will they ever realise that every one would be better off if they made legally owning and consuming media easy and steamlined instead of spending billions on lobbying and propaganda?

[–] Kallestar@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why give up a stranglehold on current profit margins to upset the status quo for (in their kindest estimation) the possibility of a net positive when you can simply CRUSH DISSENT

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

plys there's profits to be had in crushing dissent.