Can someone ELI5 how it actually works?

Say I'm a UK citizen with advanced glioblastoma (implying loss of faculties, seizures, and pain; no cure, and things to worsen before eventually passing away, possibly some time from now). Suppose I wish to view websites on euthanasia options, but am blocked from doing so by the UK's Online Safety Act.

How does/will Freedom.gov help? (is it essentially a free VPN?)

Also, as others have pointed out, couldn't the censoring government simply block access to freedom.gov?

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gpt5 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

According to Reuters, it will essentially be a free VPN.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-...

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shiroiuma a minute ago | parent | next [-]

Can people use it for sailing the high seas?

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jeroenhd an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That may be pretty useful for torrenting, actually.

	▲	badgersnake an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Oh they’re definitely going to be watching for that. You can have the propaganda but if you start stealing from rich people they’ll be after you.

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touristtam 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So you're not paying for it? In corporate america how is that going to be moneytized?

	▲	askl 4 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You are the product
	▲	toofy an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		it would be extremely naive to believe that certain corporations allied with the regime wouldn’t have complete, entire, total access to all of the traffic to feed their data collction.
	▲	EagnaIonat 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		VPNs are in no way secure. I'm sure they will be taking all your data and using it.
	▲	trimethylpurine 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It's a government program. The tax payer pays the service provider, a company owned by some government official's cousin. Monetization happened just before your employer paid you this week.
	▲	HomeLabCrap 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Let the NSA deal with that…

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techterrier 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

can we use it for, erm, other 'freedoms' ?

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isodev 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Free Trump VPN to go with one's Trump Phone?

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andrewflnr 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It probably won't work. At least, it won't do anything interesting. It exists mostly to make Trump look anti-woke, and maybe to subvert other countries' policy a little bit.

This is not an administration that does technological innovation. Trump's "social media site" started as just rebranded Mastodon.

	▲	andrewflnr 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't expect "Trump does yet another symbolic, counterproductive stunt" to be the political hot take that ticked off the hive.

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oaiey 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And since euthanasia is not favoured by the religious right in the US (I assume here for sake of argument) it would be filtered by VPN / DNS anyway in the VPN