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>The only step the UK can take is to force ISP's to block these VPN's which will kick off a cat and mouse game and for the reasonable technical, getting around
by gruez 1y ago
>The only step the UK can take is to force ISP's to block these VPN's which will kick off a cat and mouse game and for the reasonable technical, getting around any VPN ban will be as easy as spinning up an EC2 outside the UK.
They can make it very difficult if they want, just look at China[1]. It's not impossible to get around, but it's not as easy as buying a random VPS, and following a tutorial for openvpn/wireguard.
[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentation/wu-mingshi https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentat...
- _fat_santa 1y agoPersonally I don't think China is a good comparison in this case. Yes China has the great firewall but they also a highly top-down government whereas the UK us much more like the US. Beyond straight government control, there's also the politics of all of it. China being a one party system doesn't really care if something is popular with the public but with the UK's parliamentary system, one wrong move and your party gets voted out of power.
- gruez 1y ago>Beyond straight government control, there's also the politics of all of it. China being a one party system doesn't really care if something is popular with the public but with the UK's parliamentary system, one wrong move and your party gets voted out of power. But apparently that wasn't enough to stop the online safety act from being implemented in the first place? If voters okay with sites requiring intrusive id/face scans to access 18+ sites, they're probably also fine with ISPs requiring 18+ verification to use VPNs.