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Re:VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at '... by drdexebtjl on Saturday June 20, 2026 @02:12PM (#48611474)
News agencies don’t do personalized curation. Every reader, at least from the same city, gets exactly the same content.
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Re:VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at '... by TeMPOraL on Saturday June 20, 2026 @04:00PM (#48612464)
> Every reader, at least from the same city, gets exactly the same content

That alone is a value add people don't realize even as they're losing it: it created a shared reality you and locals inhabited, that you could have a conversation about.

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Re:VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at '... by iamnothere on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:08PM (#48613880)
It also helped quite a bit with narrative enforcement.
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Re:VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at '... by TeMPOraL on Sunday June 21, 2026 @07:00AM (#48617730)
Maybe. But then at least there was a narrative, which is valuable in itself.
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