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- india@lemmy.ml
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Can India even block ProtonMail if the users also have ProtonVPN?
could they theoretically just block protonvpns ip range at an isp level?
If you start blocking VPNs you are cutting off your country from most telework/outsourcing because corporations need VPNs to their branch offices.
This is an acceptable trade off for Russia, probably not for India.
you dont block off all vpns, the ips proton vpn uses. vpns in china work the same way… not all vpns work in china, but they do exist
A state level block on protonvpn would be at the IP block level based on known, published exit nodes.
Corporate VPNs are point to point and would not be impacted
India is scaring me
Last year, the police department of the southern state of Tamil Nadu had sought to block Proton Mail after the email service was found to have been used for sending hoax bomb threats to local schools. The Indian government’s IT ministry reportedly notified internet providers to block Proton Mail at the request of law enforcement. However, the Swiss federal authorities intervened to prevent the blocking of Proton Mail taking effect.
Oh.
Temporary blocking doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. Perhaps even a longer term one if Swiss federal authorities are going to meddle.
Honestly this is the text book definition of: “We do not understand anything about the technology so just ban it all together” They are completely missing the point that its a GDPR compliant privacy focused platform, Of course people are going to abuse that.
But to enact such a draconian measure is foolish imho.
