Jesper LundDec 10

The Danish government is using the upcoming Christmas break to slip through a public consultation for a draft law that would make it an OFFENCE to use a #VPN to access content that would otherwise not be available in Denmark, or to circumvent the blocking of "illegal" websites. https://hoeringsportalen.dk/Hearing/Details/70858

This is done under the guise of ensuring a technologically neutral implementation of Directive 98/84 on pay-TV decoders (hint: the IP address is NOT a conditional access device).

#Copyright

Show threadJacobDec 10
@je5perl sigh.. I wonder how they intend to enforce that. Whole point of using for example a VPN is that it won't really be possible to trace what a specific user accessed.
Show threadJan PenfratDec 10

@jacobbaungard @je5perl Oh no, this is really shit. If passed, it would allow the Danish government to argue that deep packet inspection #DPI for the discovery and blocking of #VPN traffic is needed, and then you have a Danish #GreatFirewall.

Curious to hear what Danish businesses would say to that?

Show threadJacobDec 10
@ilumium @je5perl so far they don't say they want to limit VPN usage in general I think, "just" that it is illegal to use that as a method to access blocked sites / geo restrictions / age verification etc.
Show threadBart Smit / ⲁⲗⲍⲓⲙⲟⲛ
@jacobbaungard @ilumium @je5perl Does the intention even matter? The purpose of a system is what it does.
Dec 10 at 11:14pmWeb