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The Netherlands is banning library genesis, Spain was banning telegram.. soon the icky way to use the internet will be via 24/7 VPN. But in what jurisdiction? It seems like everyone is banning something now.
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Is this not what Texas wanted? What I think will happen eventually is that the websites will cater to government restrictions in the name of profits. They may complain and protest but the money generated from pornographic viewing online is too great.
They wanted a list of names of people accessing these sites. Texas is the same state that tried to coerce out of state abortion clinics into giving up their medical data. The sites instead decided to not play spy games with their clientele. I'm sure the money would be fine, but you'd also have to build and maintain systems for every state that would want to invade the privacy of its residence, which is a headache.
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this simply-phrased benign-sounding statement belies how terrifying it is to be the responsible party for doing digital checks at scale in production on _extremely_ PII like driver's licenses.
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The Netherlands is banning library genesis, Spain was banning telegram.. soon the icky way to use the internet will be via 24/7 VPN. But in what jurisdiction? It seems like everyone is banning something now.
VPNs will be highly regulated at some point. I'm somewhat surprised that this hasn't occurred already. I suspect the reason is that there's not been a catalyzing event that governments usually need in order to make restrictions palatable to people. This is probably designed to be that event. Enough people will buy the "think of the children" angle used to ban porn. And that legal framework can then be leveraged to re…
I had hope for efforts like Freenet and Tor and I2P that are both censorship _and_ regulation resistant, but I've had hope for them for 25+ years and have yet to see them gain significant mindshare.
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I'm very much over the age of 18 and I will not be giving out my ID or anything like that to browse content. There are some many reasons why I don't want to do it and many reasons why I think having that information at all is a bad idea.
Defendant: I’d rather just confess to the murder.
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The Netherlands is banning library genesis, Spain was banning telegram.. soon the icky way to use the internet will be via 24/7 VPN. But in what jurisdiction? It seems like everyone is banning something now.
VPNs will be highly regulated at some point. I'm somewhat surprised that this hasn't occurred already. I suspect the reason is that there's not been a catalyzing event that governments usually need in order to make restrictions palatable to people. This is probably designed to be that event. Enough people will buy the "think of the children" angle used to ban porn. And that legal framework can then be leveraged to re…
A lot of VPNs keep logs, so they can be used to honeypot unsuspecting users.