My husband doesn’t belong to 50501 and he is skeptical of the news being censored, can anone help me show him otherwise.

  • Cupcake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    Use a VPN. On the American side try to find any signs of bad past news on Trump. Now do it from another country on the VPN. See the difference before your very eyes. You can also do this on TikTok and probably get similar results.

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      You’re going to have to be more specific. There is no network-level filtering of content at the network delivery layer in the US and US can access any international hosts if the host permits it.

      Search engines do have regional awareness (that can basically always be changed as a setting) to deliver more local results. I suspect this on social media platforms is what you’re referring to. It’s not exactly censorship, but they definitely promote with an agenda.

      Don’t get me wrong, Trump and Republicans are fascists who deserve the worst fate and would gladly setup this kind of system, but it’s not like there’s a network component to censorship like you see in China and some other dictatorships (yet).

      Source: I’m always traveling and on VPNs from all regions of the Earth

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        So far most of the American censorship happens at Layer 7 (or Layer 8 - the meat layer), not Layer 3.

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      3 days ago

      Use a VPN.

      Do not recommend people to use random free VPN’s. You should pick your VPN provider carefully as all your traffic will flow through their servers.