How do you "ban VPNs"? That's not how software works, and VPNs are... you know, a key part of a bunch of online infrastructure. I get that they mean "ban them to bypass restrictions", but the entire point of a VPN is you can't tell from the outside what it's being used for. You may as well ban thinking about butterflies. You can write it down, but you can't enforce it.
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i guess we all should have fought back on internet censorship, rather than fallen back on "well i can still vpn".
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What the hell is happening in Denmark at the moment??
First forcing the chat control topic upon Europe, now this?
I looked up their government, would have expected far right or so, but it is liberal social democrat...
So what happens here?
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Denmark seems to want to fuck everything up lately, what's their problem?
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The powers that be really don’t like the idea of unmonitored secure networks do they?
The whole country wants to ban VPNs?
Or just a small subset of politicians in the pocket of big corporations who see their profits melt because of their own greed?
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Gotta give Denmark credit, they're really going for the Shittiest Western European Country Award. Granted, I'm from the USA and we're obviously an unmitigated disaster, but like, what the fuck are you guys doing? Competing for attention?
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Denmark is trying to implement a lot of straight up fascist laws lately...
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Denmark is attempting Schrodinger’s VPN ban. Seems like every week it’s defeated and re-emerges. What a waste of administrative time.
What is happening with Europe and the countries within it?
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Once again, I would like to thank stupid politicians and greedy media conglomerates for their contributions to media piracy. If not for all their hard work, we would still be playing Russian Roulette with shitty DIVX rips on Limewire.
What the hell is a foreign illegal stream?
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"Oh no! We must protect the poor MPA! The poor organization that's been hell bent on policing what films and media ought to contain and ensuring the multi-million dollar corporations continue to make their millions in peace!"
~ Denmark’s Ministry of Culture, probably
(nevermind the fact that countries with anti-piracy policies have not ever proved that they "repair" the so-called "market-damage" that they purport piracy has done)
The Supreme Court equivalent tried that in Brazil, but soon discovered all government digital infrastructure depends on it and backpedaled.
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It's already been taken off. The guy who requested this is a complete asshole that needs to be thrown out of office immidietly.
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They already pulled back the part about banning VPNs last night, before this post was even made.
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Denmark: everything is hygge unless you are Inuit or a Refugee. Now add free Internet to the exception list.
Until someone tells them how corporate IT works.
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What a terrible terrible idea
It's really telling how over the last few months, the overlap of "Oh, WTF is this?" between Privacy and Technology communities have aligned more and more.
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