Some politicians in the UK think it is a good idea to introduce identity verification for using VPN services.
It could be that these politicians do not understand what they are proposing. The alternative, that they do understand, would be even worse.
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Whistleblowers, activists, and journalists depend on anonymous VPN services. Requiring identity verification for VPN services would put them at risk. It would also have a chilling effect on online debate (VPNs can help people post anonymously on social media).
In authoritarian countries, VPN services are crucial forcriticizing the government. That is precisely why such governments seek to ban or restrict them. Hopefully, the UK will not join that list.
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@mullvadnet personally, I'd recommend @torproject instead of a VPN simply because even Mullvad will comply with an orderly issue warrant.
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The only thing that VPNs are good for is circumventing Geoblocking and Providers violating Net Neutrality.
Case in point: If you want to watch i.e. @dw_innovation / DW news then a VPN is propably the only option if you can't get the livestream working.
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@MxSpoon Yeah, and I don't fault @mullvadnet for any of it.
We Must DissentOnionService…And for what's worth Mullvad do their job pretty well.
Everything has some drawbacks, and if it's just to circumvent Geoblocking and ISPs fucking around with one's traffic, VPNs are just fine for that…
@Okuna @MxSpoon @mullvadnet @torproject @dw_innovation if you use a VPN directly, yes.
Don't shit where you eat/sleep !
vpn is also crucial for me working from home 🤣
@mullvadnet The point is exactly that the politicians of EU countries, USA, and of others aspire to turn them into authoritarian countries, even if they don't say this explicitly. It's crystal clear, seeing all these laws and law proposals. All of them aspire to become Russia 2.
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What if politicians understand everything but only voice false goals?
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Using Occam's razor to think this through: my conclusion is that they do not understand it.
@mullvadnet The problem is that Cyberfascists do know that they are spouting fascist bs.!
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You don't need to verify your identity when using VPNs in Russia: most of them are just blocked and no longer work.
@mullvadnet Way too many politicians make decisions in domains where they are clearly poorly informed.
That is not where the problem stops - they are also arrogantly sure of their opinions and rarely heed the advice od experts when they contradict their arrogantly conceived and mostly non-holistic opinions.
@greenpete @mullvadnet Very much so. Lobbying, insider trading, abuse of expense claims. All in broad daylight (especially in the US).
Yet, Jeremy Corbyn was an exceptional beacon. 32 years voted as Islington MP as he does vast amounts to help people.
Met a lady in town the other day on bail for holding a sign. She was asked for an image to send to Corbyn in a recent protest. He replied with a thank you video!
It is perhaps notable that @mullvadnet do not understand threading on mastodon.
Whistleblowers, activists, and journalists depend on anonymous VPN services. Requiring identity verification for VPN services would put them at risk. It would also have a chilling effect on online debate (VPNs can help people post anonymously on social media). In authoritarian countries, VPN services are crucial forcriticizing the government. That is precisely why such governments seek to ban or restrict them. Hopefully, the UK will not join that list. 2/2
Some politicians in the UK think it is a good idea to introduce identity verification for using VPN services.
Top of the some politicians Shabhana Mahmood.
She dreams about knowing everything about everybody.
Orwellian Ghoul.
privacy is a Human Right, and includes anonymity
@mullvadnet not to forget, any legal definition of a VPN can be
a) so narrow as to be easily worked around
b) so broad as to include many perfectly sensible networking
c) both of the above.
It cannot be neither.
@mullvadnet Counters to this are to use a VPN that ignores bams/resrricrions in other countriea, or to bring up the heavy artillery by using Torbrowser. Not even China can consistantly and reliably blockbTor and they have a lor more resources that any US state does.
Not likely the US government wants to pay for and hire for a Great Firewall of America either.
@mullvadnet next step: Age verification for Tor
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