Message-ID: <20220803215559.GA1291@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 17:55:59 -0400
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: I'm still trying to reconnect with the Telecom Digest
server
On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 10:28:28PM -0400, Telecom Digest Moderator wrote:
> Thanks for reading this, and thanks for your patience while I try various
> solutions to the problem.
For the moment, I have found a way around the port blocking. One of
the readers, who prefers to remain anonymous, told me that Panix has a
"Shell In A Box" feature which allows for access to a Unix shell
through Panix's web server. For the moment, that will have to do, and
although it causes some confusion when I enter cntl commands to
emacs, I'll learn to adapt. My thanks to the person who helped, and
I've already told him that I owe him a beverage of his choice the next
time he's in Burnsville, NC. THANKS DUDE!
I'm still looking for a longer-term solution, so this part is still importa=
nt:
> If you are, or know someone who is, an expert on Protonvpn setups, please
> send me a reply off-line, to malassimilation at gmail. I'm trying to get
> prontonvpn to carry port 22 traffic around the blockage, but so far without
> success.
BIll Horne
Phone 536-0264 in the west North Carolina area code.
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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2208031556440.1636373@mtv>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 15:58:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: jr9@sympatico.ca
Subject: Re: I'm still trying to reconnect with the Telecom Digest
server
Just use a VPN. They can block port 22 outgoing (not sure why...) but a
VPN will overcome that. ExpressVPN is what I use.
Jeff
Message-ID: <20220803221541.GB1291@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 18:15:41 -0400
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: I'm still trying to reconnect with the Telecom Digest
server
On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 03:58:01PM -0400, jr9@sympatico.ca wrote:
> Just use a VPN. They can block port 22 outgoing (not sure why...)
> but a VPN will overcome that. ExpressVPN is what I use.
Thanks for the tip: I tried protonvpn because it's free for ordinary
use, but I think I'll wind up paying to get it to handle ssh
tunneling.
Please give more details about ExpressVPN: how much it costs, the
quality of their technical help, whether their customer service staff
is on the ball, and what kind of memory and disk space it uses. TIA.
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Message-ID: <20220730224933.5C2F871C@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 22:49:33 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: CWA Organizing Update
Hannah Borstel, a Consultant at Verizon Express in Portland who is
organizing with her co-workers to form a union with CWA, was the
featured guest for 90.7 FM KBOO's Labor Radio program. In the episode
which aired on Monday, Hannah explained why she and her co-workers are
organizing a union including the working conditions that led the
workers to want to organize and fight back. During the interview,
Hannah also highlighted how being part of the national wave of
organizing among retail workers who face similar challenges has been
inspiring for her and her co-workers to keep the fight going. Hannah
ended her interview by calling on community members to support the
workers' organizing efforts and sharing the various ways they can do
so through social media and other means.
https://cwa-union.org/news/organizing-update-167
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Message-ID: <892492b8-e2b9-ec9a-811a-28c6a0123dff@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 09:34:48 -0400
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Florida Law Intended To Prohibit Social Media Platforms
From Censoring Certain Speech
Florida Law Intended To Prohibit Social Media Platforms From Censoring
Certain Speech On Grounds That Social Media Platforms Exercise First
Amendment-Protected Editorial Judgment
by Joel Kurtzberg , John MacGregor and Jason Rozbruch
On May 23, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh
Circuit decided NetChoice, LLC v. Att'y Gen., Fla., 2022 WL 1613291
(11th Cir. May 23, 2022), in which the court held that most of the
provisions in Florida S.B. 7072 – a law intended to prohibit social
media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, from censoring certain
speech – were substantially likely to violate the platforms' First
Amendment free speech rights. Although the law was intended to protect
First Amendment rights – i.e., to protect certain speech from
censorship by social media platforms – the Eleventh Circuit determined
that the law itself violated the First Amendment by restricting the
social media platforms' right to so censor and moderate as the
platforms saw fit. That kind of content moderation, the court found,
is constitutionally-protected "editorial judgment." The court also
held that social media platforms are not "common carriers" with
lessened First Amendment rights. In so holding, the Eleventh Circuit
has created a circuit split, departing from the decision of the United
States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (just twelve days
earlier, on May 11, 2022) to permit enforcement of the substantially
similar Texas H.B. 20. It appears likely that the Supreme Court will
ultimately weigh in and provide guidance regarding how the First
Amendment should be applied to these statutes.
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/social-media/1216526/florida-law-intended-to-prohibit-social-media-platforms-from-censoring-certain-speech-on-grounds-that-social-media-platforms-exercise-first-amendment-protected-editorial-judgment-?email_access=on
