Comment on ProtonVPN: Site Blocking Is an Attack on Users' Online Freedom.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Okay, so VPN providers have to block access to sites.
So now make them VPS resellers and you set up your own VPN. Do all VPS sellers need to do this? Will AWS, GCP, and Azure have to block pirate sites?
Or what if I just ship a raspberry pi to a friend in some other country, will his ISP have to block access even if they’re outside their jurisdiction?
Xanza@lemm.ee 1 month ago
If a Government is able to successfully assert that companies within their borders must block access to content they find abhorrent, it’s only a matter of time before they’re convinced they can do it to ISPs, too.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But what about companies outside their borders?
Xanza@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Won’t even matter. Like I said, if they convince themselves that they have the right to limit from within their borders it’s only a matter of time before they convince themselves that they can limit ISPs. Then you have precedence, and other countries will follow suit.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s not exactly how jurisdiction works without a lot of international cooperation.
Plus we can just trade DNS entries or damn hosts files and they won’t know. The Pirate Bay is even still up.
The Internet was designed to withstand nuclear weapons. It’s not going down without a fight.