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Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole

sefra1@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Until the go government starts blocking entry nodes, then there will be a whole new country relying on the snowflake protocol.

Also, this doesn’t affect only people under 18, any sane adult should never send a copy of their id to anything but the government, bank, insurance or employer.

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pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If they block entry nodes, just build an entry node. They can’t block stuff inside your own network.

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- sefra1@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ofc they can, but they don’t need to, they just seize the server and jail the operator.
  
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nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

a whole new country relying on the snowflake protocol.

That would put them in the company of China, Russia, and Iran. Getting unrestricted Internet to people in those countries is why I am among those who run a snowflake node on a dedicated VPS (the link also has a simple browser addon – it’s easy to support the network, everyone should)

Yes, these moves suck for UK youth. But, anti-censorship tools do exist, and volunteers like me want people who could benefit from them, to know about & use them.

any sane adult should never send a copy of their id to anything but the government, bank, insurance or employer.

100% agree, take my upvote

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- sobchak@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Does Snowflake still work in China? Thought I read they’re now able to detect and block it.
  
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  - nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, the newer thing to counter that is WebTunnel which came out last year. There’s considerably more setup than just starting a snowflake proxy process, and I am ashamed to say I haven’t set one up yet
    
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- CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Just out of curiosity how does one connect to the snowflake in the event that normal Tor does not work?
  
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  - nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    In general real-time games are not great for Tor, because it introduces lots of network latency – which makes you safer
    
    For most applications, the easiest way to Torify is via using SOCKS from the Tor Browser Bundle, which would let you simply pick Snowflake when Tor Browser starts up. I asked Perplexity for directions on running Minecraft over Tor, here ya go
    
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