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Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits (mashable.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Finally it seems the end of Reddit is near.

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[–] 77 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Yeah, fuck all that.

Guess we're transitioning into a VPN only future.

We have the opportunity to head into a utopic or dystopic future and we're absolutely choosing the dystopic one.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    They'll criminalize personal VPN users for non-work purposes, next.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Work VPN doesn't look any different to any other VPN to the people tapping the lines.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't think we ever really had a choice

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Indeed. With our current system it was only a matter of time. As soon as the internet became a default thing which everyone needed to access just to function in their daily lives, it would of course be subjected to the exact same exploitative mechanisms that the non-internet part of our lives have suffered from since the dawn of history.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A VPN future? Haha. Not if they don't want to. There are many ways to prevent VPN from operating when you're a government.

    You can just plain ban encryption, which sounds really crazy, but yeah, they're trying to.

    You can just say "it's illegal to use a VPN". It'll technically still work, but if there's a trace of trafic from your house to a known VPN endpoint, you're it! Great!

    They can force custom proprietary spying software on your devices. Sounds equally crazy as the thing above, right? But rest assured they're ALSO trying to do that. Multiple times, even. And in some places… they did. Of course, nothing forces you to have such software on your device. Especially if your devices are not supported; it also turns into a "you have to buy this or that big name device, everything else's de-facto illegal! Fuck you, we're the government!". And if you get caught for whatever, and your phone, PC, or anything isn't "compliant"? Bam. Guilty.

    Plenty of option. All of them completely stupid and would weaken both privacy, individuals, and governments at large. It never stopped legislation from being pushed forward.

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