The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”.
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The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification.
A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.
@mullvadnet
Anyone must get #Tor ASAP.
I invite those who has a VPS to set up a #tornode
Ideally we shall also get #i2p but that's more complex to use -
The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification.
A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.
I have already setup a Wireguard VPN on one over my VPS, no questions asked
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@hypolite @mullvadnet There should be a civil service IT sanity department. It is politically neutral, staffed by people who actually have a clue. Proposals like this are submitted to this department and a simple response is returned, one of:
- Oh fuck off
- Needs a lot of work, re-submit
- Yeah, should be okOne of the big problems is the 4 year election cycle, knowledge and real world experience don’t have much of a say when each successive government has its own ideas and wants to make a name for themselves.
That and shuffling politicians between posts, one month you’re head of transport for the whole country, the next you’re supposed to be responsible for the health service. Like you’re so competent you can manage such diverse areas with aplomb.
Also, a head in the sand approach to what works the best. An other country may have solved a particular problem but we can’t be seen to be adopting their great idea because we have to come up with it ourselves and ignore the received wisdom, spend years implementing it and finding out it doesn’t work when the work has already been done.
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@sundew
That's great. But are people over there aware that they're being enslaved?@nuwagaba2 @sundew UK here. mostly not.
what doesn't help is that, if we really do have a national personality trait, it's "grit your teeth and bear it". (compare to france where it's "set fire to cars until they stop".)
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@alexanderdyas @mullvadnet Yeah, I don’t get it. How is the government going to prevent people from downloading VPN software?
@michaelgemar @mullvadnet I guess they can hit the app market places, make VPN vendors comply by law. But that doesn’t cover side loading, non-mobile devices etc. Also as we’ve seen the identity verification systems are massively flawed and easily by-passed.
Like using a sieve to solve a leak.
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@djstreethawk @hypolite @mullvadnet I say civil service, but I mean a non-partisan, expert organisation. Could be an academic institution.
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The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification.
A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.
@mullvadnet Wait a sec, don’t online banks all use VPN’s? And most work from home setups?
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@nuwagaba2 @sundew UK here. mostly not.
what doesn't help is that, if we really do have a national personality trait, it's "grit your teeth and bear it". (compare to france where it's "set fire to cars until they stop".)
@fishidwardrobe
What can open their eyes to see the reality? -
@fishidwardrobe
What can open their eyes to see the reality?@nuwagaba2 damned if i know. all the right-wing, billionaire-owned, nutcase newspapers starting a campaign against it, maybe?
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Let me guess - the verification will be done by Palantir? Really not enjoying feeling like I’m living in Alan Moore’s fever dream
@mullvadnet@mastodon.online @Lemlems@mastodon.social obviously Peter Thiel's company, Persona. Zionists help Zionists after all
