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France VPNs might be banned amid SREN Bill's new "unreasonable amendments" (www.techradar.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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List of countries prohibiting the use of a VPN:

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  • ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช United Arab Emirates
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ต North Korea
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฒ Turkmenista
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[โ€“] [email protected] 46 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year 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.