I mean technically you can make JUST the age verification without identification, using a cryptographic protocol. But I doubt they would build it that way.
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This is the "good option" electorally too. Yay, labour won, we won! Then they lock down the internet, put Thiel that wants to spray the political opposition and critics with fentanyl with drones is brought in to give you secret social scores based on all of your activity they have identified you with.
As if it will stop there. Then they cancel jury trials for up to 3 years in prison. Create a masterbaitorbase. Now track vpn's, enough already, throw these bums out, they are doing more damage than the fucking tories did, and are throwing the country to the far right. Get a real leader, not the handpicked sucessor with the reasonable sounding voice that is mandelson's protege that like starmer made his career on purging labor of the left and popular reform by kicking people out for criticizing Israel and other demonstratable fabricated lies.
Don't worry. As we're all law abiding citizens we have nothing to fear from this. This law will only be used to protect children from pedophiles by looking through everyone's laundry (except the epstein league's) and to hunt terrorists (such as the senior citizens supporting Palestine action).
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Mullvad da real mvp
Yeah I've been very happy with them.
No experience with their software, but the service is great
I have an ARM SBC with WireGuard handling my tunnels, and my router does the rest (so my TV/guest SSID/personal SSID/whatever can get routed over Mullvad with no client setup). My DNS forwarders are each routed through a different Mullvad interface too.
Oi, you got a lioscence for that vee pee enn?
Just like the billionaires want
Stupid fuckers with too much power and terminally bad luck when they think.Β
I think this has already been shot down. Iβm pretty sure the Lords said theyβd block this.
For now maybe, if they are proposing it they will do it later when they can, just as they will further cancel jury trials when they can. Right now doling out up to 3 years in prison via magistrates the famously cuntish legal dickheads appoint.
Thanks to spineless starmer.
Starmer is not spineless so much as in on it. He made his career selling out to the rich and connected. His likely successor is of the same vein, and also mandelson's protege, can't remember his name, he's a reasonable sounding voice and seems like he's not a piece of shit but he is.
Why is the pick of the party someone that is subservient to Epstein's co conspirators?
How could you enforce that? Just get a VPN outside the country.
I think the idea is that any VPN that doesn't comply gets IP blocked. But that's obviously a cat and mouse game since VPN services are a dime a dozen and you can always rent a VPS and tunnel to a respectable VPN through it.
It's more like mouse and bazooka: you might hit the mouse, but you'll destroy your whole house at the same time.
Also all of this assumes we're in a purely ipv4 paradigm. IPv6 has essentially infinite direct addresses that can be used.
That is probably true but the average person won't be able to get past the stage finding a non-IP-blocked VPN.
Not necessarily, sure the average person will have a much harder time, but inevitably, word of mouth networks form and people quickly share which VPN isn't currently caught by the blocks. That's how it is in mainland China, and they have very strict DPI going on so the word of mouth workarounds are like "use this shadowsocks provider" etc
Especially with Mullvad and cash payment.