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How hard is it for repos to just "not do business in the EU" -- especially those that are donation funded in the first place? It's been awhile since we saw the
by cykros 4y ago
How hard is it for repos to just "not do business in the EU" -- especially those that are donation funded in the first place? It's been awhile since we saw the amusing maps drawn by the Pirate Bay pointing to the big pond that separates where the law is enforceable and where the servers are. Perhaps it'd require IP range blocking, but honestly, if there's no ads or any business being done in the EU, even that seems unnecessary -- the EU can take the trouble to block them if they like.
- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoWith the use of VPNs, it's almost impossible to prevent someone in the EU from accessing a service.
- Euphorbium 4y agoIs there anything preventing the ban of vpns?
- cykros 4y agoWell, an outright ban would make most corporate business in the EU impossible, which is why China hasn't even gone this far. I guess you could go ahead and try to ban VPN's for private use, but frankly my suspicion is that this would not be easily enforceable, and on top of that would be easy enough to get around using a "poor man's VPN", ie, ssh -D. Going down the rabbit hole further, banning ssh would still leave the door open for things like stunnel, socks, or heck, even just http proxies. At some point you're asking to just change the way networking works in the first place. All to stop kids that can drive a car and meet strangers in person from chatting with strangers on the Internet.
- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoPresumably that would lead to also banning https and encrypted traffic entirely. It's trivial to set up a VPN that looks just like https traffic.