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VPN's are a way for you to choose which provider's or country's policies you want to be under. Obviously this can only happen as long as the powers that be allo
by Joeri 10y ago
VPN's are a way for you to choose which provider's or country's policies you want to be under. Obviously this can only happen as long as the powers that be allow it. It is trivial to forbid or block all non-backdoored vpn's for example.
A question which I find interesting is why we can't make these policy choices in the real world. For example, choose which country's social safety net you want and be taxed accordingly. It may be impractical, but are rivers and mountain slopes (aka borders) really the best way to draw a line between two different policies?
- evilduck 10y agoSounds like an indirect way to say you want to privatize social services. If a country is "selling" you a social safety net, you're essentially just paying a company for insurance coverage and/or a retirement savings plan.
- Joeri 10y agoWell, I don't want anyone to turn a profit on it, so not particularly. The downfall of letting people choose is that the rich end up opting out, which undermines the system. Maybe I'm arguing the opposite, that there should be a single global system. Or maybe I don't quite know what the right policy is, just that the current system is nonsensical.