Mastodawn

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).

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🇵🇸 Álvaro González Dec 10

@je5perl How are VPN users supposed to know that a given service is unavailable in Denmark? This is pretty much a whole ban on VPNs, isn't it?

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Eugene

@kAlvaro @je5perl As a Russian, I can explain this: it is a problem of the end-user and since there are no easy solution to check the "list of the blocked sites" in the realtime, the government will have the next "cool" things:

1) Some people stop to use VPN because they will afraid of punishment.

2) If people continue to use it, then the government will have a "legal reason" to prosecute or punish them. Which is useful if you want to put to the jail some political activists – just accuse that they were used VPN to visit "wrong sites", if you found the cendorship evasion software on their phones or computers.