[gpt5]

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

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

[tokenless]

Free ... as in they'll spy on everything you do.

[backscratches]

They already record as much global traffic as possible.

[touristtam]

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

[toofy]

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]

VPNs are in no way secure. I'm sure they will be taking all your data and using it.

[trimethylpurine]

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.

[antonyh]

Money is the smallest concern here. It could easily replace the content with state-approved versions and the majority would never know, or at the least redirect to other sites/pages as needed. After all, it's being described as a 'portal' not a simple service.

[account42]

Are you implying that paying does in any way reduce chance of your data being further monetized in the same way?

[mobiuscog]

I'm sure Palantir will volunteer

[HomeLabCrap]

Let the NSA deal with that…

[askl]

You are the product

[jeroenhd]

That may be pretty useful for torrenting, actually.

[badgersnake]

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.

[fbn79]

So nothing new. We can just use cloudflare warp

[shiroiuma]

Can people use it for sailing the high seas?

[isodev]

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

[techterrier]

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