Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance

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https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/03/senators-ask-tulsi-gabbard-to-tell-americans-that-vpn-use-might-subject-them-to-domestic-surveillance/

This may not be an actual “Wyden siren,” but it still has his name attached to it. What’s being said here isn’t nearly as ominous as this single sentence he sent to CIA leadership earlier this year

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nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
As a Tor node operator, I have been yelling this message into the ether for years now:

Save your money! Accept one of our free tanks! It is invulnerable, and can drive across rocks and swamps at ninety miles an hour

Down sides:

you really should not stream or torrent over Tor. Both because it sucks others’ bandwidth, and because it can deanonymize you. So no it is not good for YouTube or Netflix.

Plus sides:

is free as in beer for you

no payment trail to follow (though you can and should support Tor whether you use it or not because Internet Freedom)

no corporate entity to trust (why the hell do people still trust corporations?)

websites you connect to have no idea what your IP address is/where you are

if you use Tor Bridges like Snowflake, your own government doesn’t know you are using Tor

people running Tor nodes can either see your IP address, or the address of the site you connect to, but not both

… unlike your VPN, which knows both exactly who you are, and can inspect and watch the route of every packet you send and receive
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- MrSelfDestruct25@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  So are VPNs not worth using other then to bypass location restrictions?
  
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  - cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    VPNs are good for torrenting without getting nasty letters from your ISP. Self hosted VPNs are good for securely accessing your home network remotely.
    
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DarthPub@retrofed.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
If we say we’re antifa we’re domestic terrorists. We get tired of surveillance creep and we get spied on. This admin sees Americans as the enemy.

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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Hail Chairman Trump!

Department of War = Peace
Labor Unions = Slavery Shaky hands picking up a cup of water = Strength

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