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When circumvention is more popular than compliance

da.vidbuchanan.co.uk

44 pointsLorenDB22 comments

> 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

From 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.

The 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.

I 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

hmm: https://www.foxnews.com/world/cs-lewis-tolkien-orwell-among-...

You can add the EU to this list.

China

Or US?

Or Australia?

It's time for everyone to go dark.

I'm already abandoning all my accounts that have my name.

China can’t even do it successfully, so why does the UK think they can?

Naivete, hubris, sheer bloody mindedness.

The usual.

Like China.

And of course the ban does not work even in China.

Like UK itself. Isn't UK an independent country?

The UK. Spacibo!

"UK" is also correct, chap.

No 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.

If 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?

DNS routing with controld is sufficient.

Original 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.

[stub for offtopicness]

Nothing in the article substantiates the headline.

Title is changed to: When Circumvention Is More Popular Than Compliance

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