List of countries prohibiting the use of a VPN:
- 🇨🇳 China
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
- 🇰🇵 North Korea
- 🇹🇲 Turkmenista
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.
Its France, your logic has no power here!
I’m sure they’re already planning a traditional riot as I type this comment.
Mon dieu! Cette comment est trop intolerable! Je proteste!
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Honhonhon c’est une bonne bonne utilisation de le grand français
Veuillez accepter mon haut-vote
I shall block your filthy Internet queries with my OpenOffice firewall!
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.
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.
Exactly, how would anyone work from home without a VPN?
In a very insecure way.
What a great
clublist to be a part ofTake out Russia and it’s the CUNT club
Rearrange Russia and they can be the CUNTRs.
I like the sound of that.Im a fan of CRUNT personally
With France you can go for FUC NTR, which is somewhat worth it.
Or CUNT FR (for real)
That’s better, I must admit.
It was a team effort 😉👍
You might want to fact check that edit.
This kind of nonsense is only mandated out of fear, but in reality it’s not only colossally stupid, but also really difficult to enforce. Any proper business uses one. Anyone who wants privacy, and ad network anonymity uses one. There’s plenty of other uses people would want one, obviously
I just think it’s corporate interests, not fear, that’s driving this. Terror and Children are just the easiest excuse to ensure a lot of people go blindly along with it.
There aren’t any real corporations left in Russia, that aren’t either government owned, or actively circlejerking around the president for any praise. But otherwise you’re right
I fear that the UK might try to join this list not just out of authoritarianism, but out of a fear of technology they do not understand. Worse yet, the Conservative party once threw around the idea of banning encryption in its entirety and acted like WhatsApp is only used by criminals.
Ironic, considering how many members of the cabinet are being served court orders for their WhatsApp messages.
It’s almost like certain members of the cabinet associate encrypted messages with misdeeds because of all the misdeeds they do through these apps. If I were a sceptical man.
It’s not a total ban of VPNs, I went to read a bit on the subject (easier since I’m french), it’s just that some politicians came up with a few amendments relative to the bill called “SREN” which very literally translates to “Securing and regulating the digital space”. As you may guess that bill also ticks the “child porn” box as a reason why it came to existence.
One amendment proposes to ban mobile VPNs that do no comply with European or french regulations in the context of app stores. So it’s only on mobile, nothing about desktops.
Of course it’s inapplicable in practice.
Several amendements already failed due to backlash, one was about preventing people from posting on social networks if they use a VPN.
Yeah was also just listening to a podcast about this. So yeah not a straight total ban. But from what I heard, it would ban people from using VPNs outside of Europe, which obviously is not OK.
It’s not just France, it’s EU based politics too. There’s certain liberal & center right parties & politicians that heavily push for shit like this, just like the chat control crap.
Russia isn’t prohibiting the use of VPNs but it is making it increasingly more headache inducing (protocol based blocking, ip bans of popular vpn providers).
I love our slow descent into authoritarianism with a hint of fascism to go with it.
Le smooth brain
I just wonder how the hell they plan on enforcing things like this
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Any remote login happens via VPN.
I don’t support this, but you don’t need VPNs for remote logins. SSH exists, it’s just that VPNs are a better solution for companies among other things.
“any”
Doesn’t Iran prohibit vpns?
VPNs are not illegal in China, Russia, UAE, or the DPRK. That’s 4 out of 5 where you didn’t research it properly. In China, VPN use is legal, setting up your own VPN for domestic use is legal, but renting nodes to foreign companies is illegal unless you can document what the nodes are being used for which VPN providers can’t. In Russia, VPN use is legal, but VPN providers must comply with censorship laws and deny access to their blacklist. In the UAE, VPN use is legal, but using a VPN while committing a crime is illegal (So you get a stricter sentence than if you had just committed the crime). In the DPRK, VPN use is legal, but kinda pointless since they have a nation-wide intranet. If you want to access the internet, you use the PUST-run VPN. If you’re a tourist, you can use it to connect to your home or work VPN.
I linked the tweet where it came from.
You’re propagating the misinformation. You should try to verify things before repeating them. The tweet didn’t provide sources and isn’t made by someone with credentials.
It was literally used in the article by techradar…
