When circumvention is more popular than compliance

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/compliance-vs-circumvention.html

by LorenDB • 12 months ago

44 22 12 months ago

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dotcoma• 12 months ago

Like China.

And of course the ban does not work even in China.

la_mezcla3• 12 months ago

Like UK itself. Isn't UK an independent country?

tom_2• 12 months ago

The UK. Spacibo!

WarOnPrivacy• 12 months ago

From my read, I don't see this article making the case that UK is Poised to Ban VPNs. At least not directly.

As of July 25th, internet users in the United Kingdom are being asked to prove their age before accessing many of their favourite apps and websites.

Reddit, for example, redirects the user to a 3rd party data broker service, where they are asked to provide biometric face scans, official identity documents, or a similar measure.

Do you comply with these new requirements, or just find something else to do with your time?

Well, no, there's a third option of course: circumvention [VPN].

Not much directly. Indirectly: Reddit has been ramping up VPN bans for some time. It's pretty thorough from what I see.

We may wind still up in the same unwanted space (Gov's influence over browsing) but thru different enforcement measures.

crtasm• 12 months ago

The author has since changed the title to: "When Circumvention Is More Popular Than Compliance"

If Reddit blocks your IP using their .onion site is an option.

Havoc• 12 months ago

Firefox Container Tabs are a great way to selectively route certain websites over a VPN.

TIL. Guess I’ll need to explore that cause I’m not really up for this send passport and face scan to random companies bullshit

jaimex2• 12 months ago

It's time for everyone to go dark.

I'm already abandoning all my accounts that have my name.

EGreg• 12 months ago

I wonder who's more authoritarian these days, UK, Russia or China when it comes to free speech. Actually Konstantin Kisin wondered that years ago already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r7GRx8Sl-s

hmm: https://www.foxnews.com/world/cs-lewis-tolkien-orwell-among-...

thund• 12 months ago

Or US?

EspadaV9• 12 months ago

Or Australia?

BriggyDwiggs42• 12 months ago

China

rdm_blackhole• 12 months ago

You can add the EU to this list.

daft_pink• 12 months ago

China can’t even do it successfully, so why does the UK think they can?

jasonm23• 12 months ago

Naivete, hubris, sheer bloody mindedness.

The usual.

tomhow2• 12 months ago

Original title was "The UK is Poised to Ban VPNs" but the article's title has changed and the author commented:

Edit: I've changed the title of this post from its original and slightly more inflamatory "The UK is Poised to Ban VPNs", because it seems to be getting popular and I don't want to see a million people arguing over it.

tomhow2• 12 months ago

[stub for offtopicness]

digianarchist• 12 months ago

Nothing in the article substantiates the headline.

ChrisArchitect• 12 months ago

Title is changed to: When Circumvention Is More Popular Than Compliance

stranded22• 12 months ago

DNS routing with controld is sufficient.

When circumvention is more popular than compliance

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