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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@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.