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When circumvention is more popular than compliance
- dotcoma 1y agoLike China. And of course the ban does not work even in China.
- la_mezcla 1y agoLike UK itself. Isn't UK an independent country?
- tom_ 1y agoThe UK. Spacibo!
- la_mezcla 1y ago"UK" is also correct, chap.
- tom_ 1y agoNo it isn't. When you deploy it as a noun, referring to the specific country, it needs the definite article. Some nouns, you can do without - but this noun, you can't.
- la_mezcla 1y agoIf I go find "UK" without "the" in any English newspaper or article, will you send me $10k? If there exists a rule that allows an omission of "the" for "UK" in certain context, will you send me $20k on top? If you aren't able to prove that in this context I speak formally rather than informally, and in the latter "the" may sometimes be omitted, will you send me $30k on top?
- WarOnPrivacy 1y agoFrom my read, I don't see this article making the case that UK is Poised to Ban VPNs. At least not directly. As of July 25th, internet users in the United Kingdom are being asked to prove their age before accessing many of their favourite apps and websites. Reddit, for example, redirects the user to a 3rd party data broker service, where they are asked to provide biometric face scans, official identity documents, or a similar measure. Do you comply with these new requirements, or just find something else to do with your time? Well, no, there's a third option of course: circumvention [VPN]. Not much directly. Indirectly: Reddit has been ramping up VPN bans for some time. It's pretty thorough from what I see. We may wind still up in the same unwanted space (Gov's influence over browsing) but thru different enforcement measures.
- crtasm 1y agoThe author has since changed the title to: "When Circumvention Is More Popular Than Compliance" If Reddit blocks your IP using their .onion site is an option.
- Havoc 1y ago> Firefox Container Tabs are a great way to selectively route certain websites over a VPN. TIL. Guess I’ll need to explore that cause I’m not really up for this send passport and face scan to random companies bullshit
- jaimex2 1y agoIt's time for everyone to go dark. I'm already abandoning all my accounts that have my name.
- EGreg 1y agoI wonder who's more authoritarian these days, UK, Russia or China when it comes to free speech. Actually Konstantin Kisin wondered that years ago already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r7GRx8Sl-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r7GRx8Sl-s hmm: https://www.foxnews.com/world/cs-lewis-tolkien-orwell-among-works-tagged-triggers-far-right-extremism-anti-terrorism-group https://www.foxnews.com/world/cs-lewis-tolkien-orwell-among-...
- thund 1y agoOr US?
- EspadaV9 1y agoOr Australia?
- BriggyDwiggs42 1y agoChina
- rdm_blackhole 1y agoYou can add the EU to this list.
- daft_pink 1y agoChina can’t even do it successfully, so why does the UK think they can?
- jasonm23 1y agoNaivete, hubris, sheer bloody mindedness. The usual.
- tomhow 1y agoOriginal title was "The UK is Poised to Ban VPNs" but the article's title has changed and the author commented: Edit: I've changed the title of this post from its original and slightly more inflamatory "The UK is Poised to Ban VPNs", because it seems to be getting popular and I don't want to see a million people arguing over it.
- tomhow 1y ago[stub for offtopicness]
- digianarchist 1y agoNothing in the article substantiates the headline.
- ChrisArchitect 1y agoTitle is changed to: When Circumvention Is More Popular Than Compliance
- stranded22 1y agoDNS routing with controld is sufficient.