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France VPNs might be banned amid SREN Bill's new "unreasonable amendments" (www.techradar.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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List of countries prohibiting the use of a VPN:

  • πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ China
  • πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί Russia
  • πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺ United Arab Emirates
  • πŸ‡°πŸ‡΅ North Korea
  • πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡² Turkmenista
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[–] HeChomk 149 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Literally impossible to enforce. Any business worth a damn uses vpns. Blocking such would be bad for business. Also, ssl vpns are as far as I'm aware, indistinguishable from regular https traffic.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Its France, your logic has no power here!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure they're already planning a traditional riot as I type this comment.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Mon dieu! Cette comment est trop intolerable! Je proteste!

[–] TheBat 12 points 9 months ago

Omlette du fromage

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Honhonhon c’est une bonne bonne utilisation de le grand franΓ§ais

[–] AlmightySnoo 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Veuillez accepter mon haut-vote

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

I shall block your filthy Internet queries with my OpenOffice firewall!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They'll ban the known IPs of any well known VPN provider. It'll not really affect 90% of VPN users that are tech literate, but the 80% of the People that are Tech illiterate shall be punished and the Politicians shall pretend it works. This is how all the Countries blocking VPNs do it now.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

Nah it's far more stupid than that. They want to ban some (most?) VPN apps from the iOS and Android stores. You would still be able to sign up for any VPN from your browser, and manually set it up on your phone.

That's the current proposal anyway, soon they'll understand how moronic it is and either double down and try to "fix" if or quietly drop it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, how would anyone work from home without a VPN?

[–] Bakersfield 5 points 8 months ago

In a very insecure way.