The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, a move Washington views as a way to counter censorship, three sources familiar with the plan said.
The site will be hosted at “freedom.gov,” the sources said. One source said officials had discussed including a virtual private network function to make a user’s traffic appear to originate in the U.S. and added that user activity on the site will not be tracked.
In a statement to Reuters, a State Department spokesperson said the U.S. government does not have a censorship-circumvention program specific to Europe but added: “Digital freedom is a priority for the State Department, however, and that includes the proliferation of privacy and censorship-circumvention technologies like VPNs."
Get ready to ditch Mullvad, Proton and IVPN. USA VPN review when?? /s off
I mean who wouldn’t want to use a VPN run by an aspiring authoritarian government that classifies political speech they don’t like as “domestic terrorism” and is openly (and warrantlessly) surveilling it’s own citizens?
edit: I think the “FREEDOM VPN” would pair nicely with the ‘ANOM phone’ or the ‘Freedom Phone’ maybe on the Trump Mobile network.
I think that would truly provide ultimate-maximum-military-grade-hacker-proof privacy and security!
I would bet money that this is all going end end up centered on far-right messaging and platforms and giving far-right groups a way to coordinate.
Trump Media and Rumble have already done a lot of work looking at data centers near but not in the EU. Now they can be their own first client using taxpayer money, and the money is already spent by the time anything changes politically.
