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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.

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[Shitpost] Government bodies that block your VPN (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by emotional_soup_88@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm using Mullvad because I like their company. F***! These is no way I can formulate this sentence without it sounding weird...

Anyway!

It seems like the state's websites and the municipalities' websites allow Mullvad but the counties' websites block it.

What the actual f.... 😂

What's the situation in YOUR country/region? Are you able to do taxes, surf on healthcare related websites (hospitals etc) and on government bodies' sites without issues?

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[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

Ayup. This quote is from a techdirt article linked a few posts down. I like how they put it.

As the researchers put it to The Rage: “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they’ve learned to work together.”

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