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    1058 days ago

    I’m shocked that this many people feel the need to disobey a rule that is only there to help the children. Next step must be to ban VPNs altogether, and enforcing all Internet users to be identified with their real identity (/s obviously).

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      308 days ago

      The VPNs will be harder to ban. Not just from a technical standpoint, but politically as well. Big businesses will be absolutely opposed to VPN bans.

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        128 days ago

        There will be a lot of businesses who feel the (justified) need to hide the entrypoint to their infrastructure behind a VPN.

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        58 days ago

        I feel they could easily ban VPN companies (maybe?), which is what 99.9% of people that want to browse from a different location use.

        This won’t affect companies at all as they would be using their own VPN.

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          28 days ago

          The only way the sovereign nation of France can ban VPN companies not based in France is to block the IP address of every single entry point of every single VPN company and keep doing so as they add new entry points (I bet the response on the VPN company side would be to start having some kind of dynamic VPN server thing).

          And then, as somebody else already pointed out, any technically inclined person can just rent a VPS anywhere in the World and fire up their own VPN server on it.

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      158 days ago

      if the VPN ban doesn’t work then the only reasonable course of action would be to ban the internet entirely. it’s the only way the children can be truly safe.

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      88 days ago

      Don’t give them ideas. If they block no-log VPNs I’m going to become a real threat 👀

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      67 days ago

      Fun fact: they already tried. In the same law where they tried to ban E2EE a few months ago. It went about as well as you’d expect.

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      18 days ago

      Does the rule in question even apply to end users? All I had heard of it was that it put some kind of requirement on the website itself to identify people, which a person seeking out a noncompliant or foreign website presumably wouldn’t be the one violating?