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.
But in what jurisdiction? It seems like everyone is banning something now.
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.
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.
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.
A lot of VPNs keep logs, so they can be used to honeypot unsuspecting users.