• sunbeam60@lemmy.ml
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    14 days ago

    Do the government ministers understand that setting up your own VPN is literally a 5 minute operation.

    Hire a droplet VM, pre-installed with a server OS. Log in with provided credentials. sudo apt install docker Copy/paste a docker compose file that sets up a wg-easy container. Create a peer. Take a picture of the provided QR code. Connect to the server via a wireguard app. Done.

    Are they going to ban VMs?

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      14 days ago

      Are they going to ban VMs?

      They will keep banning things until they feel they have absolute control over the internet.

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      If someone tells them to, they might try until a few business interests remind them that these are also fundamental components of business networks. Once money tells them to stop it, they will.

      VPN companies should just hire a lobbyist for a week and this will all go away.

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      13 days ago

      The VM is associated with your name and payment method. It is about removing privacy so they can remove free speech and other rights. Not about porn. You don’t need a VPN to access porn in the UK. Half the porn sites don’t verify age anyway.

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      13 days ago

      They could require age verification or even special licensing to use any sort of internet server infrastructure. That’s what I would do if that was my goal.

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      14 days ago

      setting up vps requires money which ideally children do not have access to (not even crypto)

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      14 days ago

      They’ll ban encrypted Internet traffic that they don’t have a backdoor to steal inspect the contents.