All VPNs do is change who has your browsing data: your ISP or the VPN operator. You may or may not trust either of them not to keep records, in either case you have no way of verifying this.
I think it originally did under old Unix, it was what /home is nowadays; "Unix System Resources" is a backronym.
Did you reply to the wrong comment? Where did I defend censorship?
"The OS" doesn't exist. The operating systems you're talking about are called Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, RHEL, etc etc. The main work of making an actually usable OS from the various free software components others have written has always been done by the teams responsible for these products.
But we still need a way to refer to them collectively, and it used to make sense to call them "Linux" because they were pretty much the only operating systems that used the Linux kernel, but now that Android is the most widely used OS on the planet, it doesn't anymore, and this alone is a reason to say GNU/Linux unless you want to include Android.
This is why I also mentioned "a source we chose". On GNU/Linux package managers and F-Droid I can add additional package sources which can be managed by the developer.
Point is, it shouldn't be a thing that Apple or Google or anyone has this kind of power.
Remember when reddit was a free speech platform where pretty much everything legal was ok except doxing?
What went wrong that we can't have places like that on the Internet anymore?
And of course downvote so that fewer users see it
I was with you until the last sentence. Things like that are usually supported by many or even most Democrats too. The Democratic Party isn't a civil libertarian party, at all.
I have not researched these specific cases, so may be wrong about them.
Yes. In my teenage years, these kinds of web forums were the norm, now they are almost as outdated as Usenet or mailing lists. I think that is a shame because I found web forums utterly addictive while on reddit and lemmy I tend to quickly run out of things to read.
The commenter you replied to literally wrote the computers are locked down, ie no way to install any new software.
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I have no idea who you are or what else you have ever posted to lemmy or anywhere on the Internet. I assume that when people on the Internet talk about their experiences, they are probably telling the truth; only if it is plainly impossible or implausible that it might ever have happened to anyone do I start to think they are lying.