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Being pushed for a technologically illiterate ex headteacher as usual.
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“We want a list of people using VPNs, when and where. So we can corelate that with traffic flow data and service providers.”
This has nothing to do with porn or kids. This is about power and curtailing speech.
Well this was 100% to be expected. Banning VPNs is next, then TOR and before you know it you have to scan your ID to even access the internet.
Say goodbye to the “free” internet. Say hello to Orwellian “state approved” internet.
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Besides, if it helps, VPNs are really hard to ban. China has been trying for decades now without much success.
It’s better to have it be illegal, and available. That way the government can selectively prosecute and punish (political) opponents.
You cannot feasibly ban VPNs. Too many use cases for businesses.
Easily solvable, already is. Laws for me, not for thee.
And what about all the companies that use VPNs? Do they just shut down because the government made them illegal?
One thing I know about my country is that companies rule what happens and so this would never happen.
If you don’t believe me, then feel free to educate me on how you would do this and countries that have already succeeded.
Furthermore you can disguise VpN traffic as regular old HTTPs traffic.
illegal
What’s that got to do with corporations?
you can
The people making these laws wouldn’t care if they understood, wouldn’t undersrand if they knew, and absolutely aren’t interested in knowing. Basically ever.
And what about all the companies that use VPNs? Do they just shut down because the government made them illegal?
Just literally told you how. One line. Easy. Just declare VPN usage illegal for the common plebeian or when not credentialed with a company that is reporting to the government. Ez pz.
No country on Earth has successfully banned VPNs. End of.
The purpose of a ban is not necessarily to 100% remove use. A law can not, by definition, make something happen or not happen (think eg.: speed cap in traffic law). It does give the lawhandler permission to remove your rights if you are “found” to be infringing.
Indeed and many countries have tried from China, Iran, UAE, to Russia and North Korea. Yet none of them have succeeded and as shit as my government is I can’t see them wasting time and energy going this route when it has never worked.
As I said previously even if you could block the VPN ports and stuff it’s a trivial task to obfuscate your VPN traffic as regular HTTPs traffic.
I really hope you are right. I truly do.
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Well, yeah, they can. I don’t agree with this, to be clear, but surely they can. Plus there’s some free ones, including ProtonVPN.
And there probably are some free ones which still sell access to your home network/computer. Let’s protect kids harder by pushing them to download sketchy software!
Sounds familiar from not long ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20250101043250/https://www.wired.com/story/residential-proxy-network-cybercrime-vpn/
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Certainly not. When I tried free Proton I could get up to 600Mbps. That is very usable.
Furthermore, some can be purchased via other methods like cash (Mullvad, IVPN, Proton). I am sure they can buy postage stamps and send mail.
And Mullvad vouchers are also sold physically in few stores based on their website, though only in Sweden (Inet, Webhallen) and Germany (ProxyStore).
Lastly, kids can also have their own debit cards too, or just steal their parent’s. OR, there’s stuff like Visa gift cards.
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When I tried free Proton I could get up to 600Mbps.
It should be noted for everyone else that this is very likely bullshit, and even if it’s not, your speeds depend entirely upon how full the server is and won’t be that fast most of the time. Proton’s free tier is known for being absolute garbage most of the time, bordering on unusable.
Tested with SANET (Slovak academic network).It’s an old result, tried with exit IP 89.187.164.251.
I tried to search it up, it is shown in one list of ProtonVPN addresses on Google, but the GitHub site gives 404.
Edit: Wireguard, I should add.
I guess it’s just too late for those kids that viewed porn. What are they going to do with all those dead bodies?
who are paying for these VPNS? adults? why?
