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Re:I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptograp... by blfr on Saturday January 29, 2022 @05:09AM (#30125207)
> Even being in the tech capital of the world, the school administration's views on technology and information access were so backwards. Our school basically didn't allow accessing any websites that weren't on some allowlist.

That sounds very big tech to me, exactly the model towards which Facebook et al. are moving.

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Re:I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptograp... by alar44 on Saturday January 29, 2022 @05:31AM (#30125300)
Sounds like normal best practice for a secure environment full of shitheads to me. The hell does this have to do with Facebook? What website am I on?
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Re:I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptograp... by PickledHotdog on Saturday January 29, 2022 @01:06PM (#30128698)
I think they're alluding to the "walled garden" analogy that gets bandied about in reference to "big tech"
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