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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Aksel Jensen

@je5perl As I read the proposal, quite a few things will be outlawed: using the Internet Archive to read an old article now behind a paywall; changing DNS provider to access blocked Russian media or to download legal content from The Pirate Bay; using a VPN to buy a streaming service subscription in another country, even if the content itself is only accessed without a VPN; using a VPN to bypass age verification or GDPR-related geo-blocking. That's crazy! Am I reading things correctly, @je5perl?