Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2)

Alpha71@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some random YouTube video? Weak.

  Anyone who thinks a government can ban VPNs without destroy economy is deluded. Countless businesses use them every day.

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hmmm. China

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    • ragas@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What about China? There are VPN in China. They only try to block those that are used to act as if you are not from china.

      Company VPN or university VPN are generally allowed.

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      • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah so seen in the context of the OP it would be enough

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      • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So you can still easily hide your location? If I live in Maine and my IP says California, that’s still the same country.

        Companies and universities are controlled by China in China. There’s no opposition party that will win the next elections based on the bad economy.

        Again, this thread is about the UK, which is WHY I’m speaking in terms of Western democracies.

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    • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Isn’t a democracy. We’re talking about the UK, remember?

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  • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Anyone who thinks a government can ban VPNs without destroying economy is deluded

    Anyone who thinks government would never do something as utterly stupid as shooting itself repeatedly in the everything out of spite is deluded. Banning all form of encrypted traffic would be insane. Now tell me, how many insane things have we witnessed in the recent years from our collective governments?

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    • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Anyone who thinks government would never do something as utterly stupid as shooting itself repeatedly in the everything out of spite is deluded

      Yeah, that’s just kind of unsubstantiated anti-any-government that is not reflective of reality. We can already see the discontent causes by Trump’s economy, it’s the biggest threat to him.

      Now tell me, how many insane things have we witnessed in the recent years from our collective governments

      What does “insane” mean? How is that measured, however you see fit?

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      • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s not unsubstantiated. Push for government-sanctioned client-side spyware already happened years ago with the intent to scan all content and keeps happening every other year, each time with more support, inefficient laws about age control have been pushed in many countries and other are following suits, there’s constant harassment to tech company for them to create backdoor for spying on demand, device manufacturer are threatened for allowing custom software that can be used to circumvent such provisions, etc.

        If you haven’t seen any of this, then sure, be surprised that a ban on general public encryption is not unthinkable.

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  • Alpha71@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Politicians who say they will don’t understand the internet, they’re old

    And that’s exactly why they will try. Keep in mind their will still be VPN’s. You just won’t be able to access it. It will only be for governments and the elite.

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    • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And that’s exactly why they will try

      And exactly why they’ll fail. I can guarantee it’s already a minority of lawmakers and that number will dwindle when younger members of their staff tell them how stupid it is.

      And every business or school of any size is the “elite”?

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      • Alpha71@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Have you been paying attention to the state of the world recently?

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