What vpn does HN recommended?

For bypassing geoblocks Hola is great. Just have a seperate Chrome/Chromium installation just for Hola.

Or if you're a little bit evil, you can just use the Hola IPs as a regular HTTP/HTTPs proxy: http://milankragujevic.com/uploads/hola/

All the benefits, none of the downsides.

To do what Hola appears to do best (bypassing filter protection or basic traffic forwarding) I just use a socks5 proxy server, all you need is a box with ssh and make sure your dns requests as well as the http data go through the proxy.

I think you can even set it up with chrome/ff without addons, but I use foxyproxy since you can switch in seconds.

Set up an OpenVPN server on Digital Ocean's Germany region.

Germany?

Mullvad works very well for me.

F secure freedome is good.

You do realize that HN is more than one person, right?

Tomorrow you should ask, "What text editor does HN recommend?"

Just putting this here for people who want free non-technical books. https://www.gutenberg.org

well, spotify probably added a bunch of songs as well.

Try out a vpn, like hola. (note: only have hola active while you are using it, there are some security risks using it.)

So break one law instead of another. There's no advantage to a VPN versus TPB, and you're still ilegally downloading the show (since the licence for the mentioned websites state that it cannot be exported, etc).

You still need a debit/credit card for that country.

No, actually you don't. When I visit the States, or when using a VPN, I get the US version just fine, at least with Netflix.

How do you pay for it?

Tribalism is ingrained in us, so you'll be able to find instances of violance due to the us-vs-them mindset anywhere.

That has no bearing whatsoever on how we should handle totalitarian ideologies.