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

• LinyosT@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  You say this as if people are utterly incapable of learning.

  Anyone can learn anything of they’re given a good enough reason to want to learn.

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• phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  There are instructions that are completely “type this” monkey see, monkey do. The majority of people who cannot follow such instructions should be wards of the state.

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• LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It makes these kids easy marks for malware.

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    • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They just got a motivation.

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    • kunaltyagi@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨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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