It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of VPNs.
  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
    242·
    8 hours ago

    Forgive me, but in my opinion, the headline is misleading … at which point in time have any lawmakers anywhere Known What They’re Doing?

    So far all I’ve ever seen in the 49 years I’ve been allowed to vote, is short term politically expedient decision making, aimed at getting re-elected (or paid), rather than science based decision making processes aimed at improving society as a whole.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
      8·
      8 hours ago

      The further we go in time the more complex life in society becomes.

      A feudal lord making logistical decisions about how iron in its economy was still capable to grasp how iron is used/reused to make tools, weapons and contraptions.

      With modern technology our tools have become a black box (almost literally) we use them but we do not understand the components and systems it relies on.

      Many times a bad law can still be followed, proven by the many dumb rules people today still follow regardless of the existence of new facts.

      But when you blanketban vpn? It becomes to nonsensical to even consider following it.

      Vpn is more then just a tool to avoid local internet rules. They are an essential technology for secure connections between devices. Standard in almost any professional corporation.

      (Anti corpo as i am, this time i actually believe there lobbying will stop this. Enemy of my enemy is a useful tool )

      This is the equivalent of the feudal lord looking at the iron logistics and ruling that smithing and metallurgy are now banned practices.

      Leaving people without proper tools to work the land, the soldiers without weapons to enforce any law.

      Greedy neighbour lords ready to exploit your mistake to invade then.

      • floofloof@lemmy.ca
        6·
        7 hours ago

        They will ban VPNs for everyone except corporations who can pay a bribe fee for an encryption license. It will only be the little people who will not be allowed to encrypt their communications. And you won’t be able to ignore the law and do it anyway on your phone, because your only options are Google and Apple, and both reserve the right to decide which developers get to distribute their software. (Google will be introducing this restriction next year.) The availability of open operating systems for computers is a situation lawmakers will no doubt want to rectify at some point.

        • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
          6·
          7 hours ago

          Actually, having just read the article they are not banning vpn at all. (Bad title)

          They are mandating that sites that subjectively provide sexual content ban traffic that comes from a vpn.

          Both corpo and private networks are fine.

          I am not sure how enforceable this is. It might be limited to a “known list of vpn providers ip addresses” but how they ever know if you have a personal server running overseas?