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They also use VPNs, as anyone would have predicted within two seconds. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn72ydj

by kleiba2 6mo ago

They also use VPNs, as anyone would have predicted within two seconds. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o Consequently, we're now discussing VPN bans for under 18 year olds <insert facepalm emoji>. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo

marcus_holmes 6mo ago
it's funny, but this is not going to end well.
- silon42 6mo ago
  Time to go back to modems (over phone maybe) and BBSs?
interstice 6mo ago
Collectively we have fought long and hard for internet freedom, it's depressing that all it takes is a generation and some bureaucratic idiocy for all that to be undone.
- bcjdjsndon 6mo ago
  > internet freedom This "freedom" runs exactly inverse to how many normies know about the internet. The more accessible it's become, the worse it's got for freedom. They weren't regulating what they didn't know about back in the glory days
heavyset_go 6mo ago
I've never seen efforts to make laws as damn bulletproof like this. They must really be scared of the voice and power anonymity gives normal people who wouldn't normally have it.
2ndorderthought 6mo ago
Vpns are really under attack this year. All the LLM providers desperately don't want to have the majority of users using them. It's basically the leading reason why quantum computing is being funded. They gotta break your encryption to read your activity. Pretty sad world.
- Permit 6mo ago
  > It's basically the leading reason why quantum computing is being funded. What? Can you provide any evidence for this claim?
  - 2ndorderthought 6mo ago
    Why do you think Google, the world's largest ad company, is paying money out of its ears to research those topics? The sooner people realize all major us tech companies are contractors for the us department of war the better.
    - worldsavior 6mo ago
      That's FUD.
      - 2ndorderthought 6mo ago
        Alright then. Go ahead use metas verifier, give your biometrics to openai, type all your personal and financial information into copilot for advice, email your boss tell him anthropics boris was right you are now redundant, click on all of the ads you see, only engage with your peers on Facebook to let the algorithm decide how that goes, only drive in roads with flock cameras to stay safe, turn off your ad blocker, don't use vpns, etc. it's your life. Or ... https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillance-data-brokers-congress-anthropic https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillanc... https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/02/27/us-govt-demands-millions-of-google-apple-and-meta-user-accounts/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/02/27/us-go... https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-surveillance-phone-tracking-data/ https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-surveillance-phone-tracking-...
contubernio 6mo ago
The vpn ban movement also has support from powerful (and corrupt) entities like the Spanish football federation ...
- anthk 6mo ago
  Go tell Tebas that the AEPD fines over LaLiga app can be astronomically huge. Also, telecomms' disruption and suplantation (MITM) in Spain can make both Tebas, the ISP CEO's (and mid managers) among the judge jailed in the spot.

by kleiba2 6mo ago

marcus_holmes 6mo ago

it's funny, but this is not going to end well.

silon42 6mo ago
Time to go back to modems (over phone maybe) and BBSs?

interstice 6mo ago

Collectively we have fought long and hard for internet freedom, it's depressing that all it takes is a generation and some bureaucratic idiocy for all that to be undone.

bcjdjsndon 6mo ago
> internet freedom This "freedom" runs exactly inverse to how many normies know about the internet. The more accessible it's become, the worse it's got for freedom. They weren't regulating what they didn't know about back in the glory days

heavyset_go 6mo ago

I've never seen efforts to make laws as damn bulletproof like this. They must really be scared of the voice and power anonymity gives normal people who wouldn't normally have it.

2ndorderthought 6mo ago

Vpns are really under attack this year. All the LLM providers desperately don't want to have the majority of users using them. It's basically the leading reason why quantum computing is being funded. They gotta break your encryption to read your activity. Pretty sad world.

Permit 6mo ago
> It's basically the leading reason why quantum computing is being funded. What? Can you provide any evidence for this claim?
- 2ndorderthought 6mo ago
  Why do you think Google, the world's largest ad company, is paying money out of its ears to research those topics? The sooner people realize all major us tech companies are contractors for the us department of war the better.
  - worldsavior 6mo ago
    That's FUD.
    - 2ndorderthought 6mo ago
      Alright then. Go ahead use metas verifier, give your biometrics to openai, type all your personal and financial information into copilot for advice, email your boss tell him anthropics boris was right you are now redundant, click on all of the ads you see, only engage with your peers on Facebook to let the algorithm decide how that goes, only drive in roads with flock cameras to stay safe, turn off your ad blocker, don't use vpns, etc. it's your life. Or ... https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillance-data-brokers-congress-anthropic https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillanc... https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/02/27/us-govt-demands-millions-of-google-apple-and-meta-user-accounts/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/02/27/us-go... https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-surveillance-phone-tracking-data/ https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-surveillance-phone-tracking-...

contubernio 6mo ago

The vpn ban movement also has support from powerful (and corrupt) entities like the Spanish football federation ...

anthk 6mo ago
Go tell Tebas that the AEPD fines over LaLiga app can be astronomically huge. Also, telecomms' disruption and suplantation (MITM) in Spain can make both Tebas, the ISP CEO's (and mid managers) among the judge jailed in the spot.