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Will the government be able to put 2 & 2 together (lemmy.world)
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[–] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

No way they will ban VPNs as it will get in the way of businesses that rely on it / those terminally working from home

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  • [–] 30 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Obviously they'll have a carve-out for businesses that apply for a VPN licence and have the other end of the VPN remain in the country. Not because they listen to the public saying that VPNs have legitimate uses, but because the megacorp they consult with before drafting the law says it's the only legitimate use-case and has a VPN product they can sell to small businesses that can't afford to wait for their self-hosted VPN to be certified by the one overworked civil servant who has sole responsibility for approving every VPN licence.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    And how are they to determine whats a "vpn"? Just rent a server in another country and ssh tunnel to it, and there you go. Impossible to know your using a 'vpn'.

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