Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

sunbeam60@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• toad31@lemmy.cif.su ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What a VM? What’s a server OS? How do I log in? What the fuck does sudo apt mean? What is docker? Now I’m editing files? A peer? What’s wireguard?

  So many of you are disconnected from regular people because you’re chronically online.

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  • LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If kids have learned to run their own Minecraft private servers, hosting a VPN should be child’s play… Pun maybe intended.

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    what’s a VPN? what’s a VPN app? how do I log in? what the fuck does a tunnel mean?

    kids somehow figured these out. they’ll be able to figure out their selfhosted VPN too.

    sunbeam didn’t describe it very clearly but it can be described in a way that its just following instructions without even having to understand it. like something like this: “register here. click this to get a free cloud server. log in to the server like this. paste this command and hit enter. install this app on your phone. tap import and scan. point your phone to the qr code on the screen.”

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    • toad31@lemmy.cif.su ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s a lot easier to get a VPN working than VPS.

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes plan law makers needs to have a clue on what they are making laws about. Teenagers looking for porn are going to learn.

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    • toad31@lemmy.cif.su ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The same teenagers that don’t even use computers with physical keyboards?

      I’d wager less than 1% of the minors affected by this will learn how to proxy through a VPS.

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      • Jason@feddit.uk ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        So all this does is create a black market for tech. People with the knowledge of how to set up this technology will provide it as a service for those who don’t.

        It’s the same as trying to outright ban drugs. Those who can provide for those who cannot (for a fee).

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      • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They just got a motivation.

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      • kunaltyagi@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I just deployed a few VM on my phone, not even a tablet. It’s not that hard nowadays with websites being designed primarily for smartphone users

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• serenissi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  setting up vps requires money which ideally children do not have access to (not even crypto)

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Do the government ministers understand that setting up your own VPN is literally a 5 minute operation.

  Of course they don’t. Most of them type with their index fingers and don’t even understand what a VPN is.

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  • GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exactly this. There’s maybe 8 politicians in the whole world that understand what a VPN is. They’re told by a lobbyist and donor that it’s a thing that is bad, now they’re out to figure out how to make it go away.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m sure the VPN industry will bring a lot of money to bear to ensure this doesn’t happen. They like the online safety act itself, because it brings them customers, but if it also causes them to face issues they’re going to be less keen on it.

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• GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If someone tells them to, they might try until a few business interests remind them that these are also fundamental components of business networks. Once money tells them to stop it, they will.

  VPN companies should just hire a lobbyist for a week and this will all go away.

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• buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are they going to ban VMs?

  They will keep banning things until they feel they have absolute control over the internet.

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• TwitchingCheese@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’ll ban encrypted Internet traffic that they don’t have a backdoor to steal inspect the contents.

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