Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next

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• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This article seems a little misinformed: VPNs are still regularly used in business and are necessary for companies to function. That’s still probably their primary use if I had to guess.

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  • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “New legislation mandates that we no longer offer the VPN connections necessary for our remote workers to access the company intranet off premises. Starting immediately, all employees are to return to office 7 days a week. If this does not work for you, please reach out to HR and they will accept that as your resignation in lieu of a written document.”

    — Meta (the corp pushing the age verification laws), probably.

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    • punkfungus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What about all of the site-to-site VPNs?

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  • Larry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Watch dis shit” - Governments around the world

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  • Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I know right? Egypt, Tanzania, China, India, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Turkey, Turkminestan, The UAE, Belarus, and Russia all have laws outright banning or restricting (you know, not business but individuals [yes, they can do that]) VPN usage.

    But it won’t happen here! You can take that to the bank.

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    • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They’re legally banned but that has not stopped the use of VPNs in the countries that tried to ban them, there are already multiple ways around the efforts to stop them.

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  • eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That sure didn’t stop Russia from blanket banning VPNs.

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    • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They’re not doing so great, but also, if someone really wants to use an encrypted connection there’s ways around it even in places like Russia and China.

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  • DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You know they’re banning foreign made consumer routers, right?

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good luck banning something that any computer in the world can run. You have wireguard vpn built into the Linux kernel. :)

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  • alakey@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And have you tried running said built-in wireguard on ISPs that block it? Spoiler: you can’t.

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    • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s why you need something more hidden like xray that can camouflage as an h2 site

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• lelovsky@szmer.info ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The headline is a slippery slope argument in action.

  If the Internet traffic becomes deeply surveilled, this won’t be by ”ban” means, but by the great firewall means. If it already isn’t surveilled this way.

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  • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Best guess about the downvotes: UK lawmakers have already discussed VPN crackdowns. Not sure at what stage the proposals are. So it’s not a slippery slope argument. Such laws are part of what builds a Great Firewall.

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    • lelovsky@szmer.info ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have never denied the possibility of VPN ban, I have just pointed out the clickbait in the headline.

      It’s not like some random article is going to save us from government oppression. Also, does anybody remember ACTA? It was a big deal like 15 years ago and was supposed to end digital piracy. lol

      Either the governments don’t really care what we all click at on our personal devices or the technology develops at a faster pace than law. Either way, we are safe. That is, until the the more power-hungry people get in charge.

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    • Mondez@lemdro.id ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      At some point the argumemt that it’s to “protect the children” rather than to control and monitor what adults do will fall flat when more and more difficult to use work arounds keep getting banned that realistically only adults would employ.

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  • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why the downvotes?

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