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The Netherlands is banning library genesis, Spain was banning telegram.. soon the icky way to use the internet will be via 24/7 VPN. But in what jurisdiction?

The Netherlands is banning library genesis, Spain was banning telegram.. soon the icky way to use the internet will be via 24/7 VPN. But in what jurisdiction? It seems like everyone is banning something now.

bitwize 3y ago
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- joecot 3y ago
  Yeah, it's going to be an easy sell to regulate VPNs more strongly when Nord and others actively advertise that they can be used to avoid regional licensing of content.
  - andrewnicolalde 3y ago
    They do, currently!
  - autoexec 3y ago
    It seems like the problem here is the regional licensing of content. If people go to such length to get around it, we should just eliminate the enforcement of arbitrary rules that want to prevent this isn't a global economy.
leosanchez 3y ago
Maybe some third world countries offers itself as a Internet Heaven.
- jj999 3y ago
  Nobody likes international sanctions nor getting liberated.
mywittyname 3y ago
VPNs will be highly regulated at some point. I'm somewhat surprised that this hasn't occurred already. I suspect the reason is that there's not been a catalyzing event that governments usually need in order to make restrictions palatable to people. This is probably designed to be that event. Enough people will buy the "think of the children" angle used to ban porn. And that legal framework can then be leveraged to regulate VPNs. First, to stop them from being used to bypass these porn restrictions, but then expanded to prevent content restriction bypassing, then to preventing online piracy, then preventing "subversive activities." Pornography is at the vanguard of free speech.
- Der_Einzige 3y ago
  Yes it is, and it's not a coincidence that one of the few places with de-facto "free speech" (de-facto copyright laws non enforced) is Generative AI - which is also utilized extremely heavily for porn (see civit.ai)
- matteoraso 3y ago
  >I'm somewhat surprised that this hasn't occurred already. A lot of VPNs keep logs, so they can be used to honeypot unsuspecting users.
- commandlinefan 3y ago
  > VPNs will be highly regulated I had hope for efforts like Freenet and Tor and I2P that are both censorship _and_ regulation resistant, but I've had hope for them for 25+ years and have yet to see them gain significant mindshare.
  - wkat4242 3y ago
    It's because they're such a sick cesspool. It puts off normal people just looking for a bit of privacy or a breath of air from all the restrictions. Especially the onion verse is bad. It's like the nazi bar. Once there's a few the bar gets a name and atmosphere and nobody else wants to do there anymore.
- nunez 3y ago
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bitwize 3y ago

Let me tell you about this video's sponsor, NordVPN. NordVPN lets you change your country of origin. I like to watch Sherlock on Netflix, but Netflix in the USA doesn't have Sherlock, so I switch my country to the UK, and look, there's Sherlock!

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joecot 3y ago
Yeah, it's going to be an easy sell to regulate VPNs more strongly when Nord and others actively advertise that they can be used to avoid regional licensing of content.
- andrewnicolalde 3y ago
  They do, currently!
- autoexec 3y ago
  It seems like the problem here is the regional licensing of content. If people go to such length to get around it, we should just eliminate the enforcement of arbitrary rules that want to prevent this isn't a global economy.

leosanchez 3y ago

Maybe some third world countries offers itself as a Internet Heaven.

jj999 3y ago
Nobody likes international sanctions nor getting liberated.

mywittyname 3y ago

VPNs will be highly regulated at some point. I'm somewhat surprised that this hasn't occurred already. I suspect the reason is that there's not been a catalyzing event that governments usually need in order to make restrictions palatable to people. This is probably designed to be that event. Enough people will buy the "think of the children" angle used to ban porn. And that legal framework can then be leveraged to regulate VPNs. First, to stop them from being used to bypass these porn restrictions, but then expanded to prevent content restriction bypassing, then to preventing online piracy, then preventing "subversive activities." Pornography is at the vanguard of free speech.

Der_Einzige 3y ago
Yes it is, and it's not a coincidence that one of the few places with de-facto "free speech" (de-facto copyright laws non enforced) is Generative AI - which is also utilized extremely heavily for porn (see civit.ai)
matteoraso 3y ago
>I'm somewhat surprised that this hasn't occurred already. A lot of VPNs keep logs, so they can be used to honeypot unsuspecting users.
commandlinefan 3y ago
> VPNs will be highly regulated I had hope for efforts like Freenet and Tor and I2P that are both censorship _and_ regulation resistant, but I've had hope for them for 25+ years and have yet to see them gain significant mindshare.
- wkat4242 3y ago
  It's because they're such a sick cesspool. It puts off normal people just looking for a bit of privacy or a breath of air from all the restrictions. Especially the onion verse is bad. It's like the nazi bar. Once there's a few the bar gets a name and atmosphere and nobody else wants to do there anymore.
nunez 3y ago

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