• YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Yeah, it’s just all these children with their bank accounts paying for their VPN subscriptions doing it all… Do they think we’re that stupid? Don’t answer that. 😔

    • Alex@lemmy.ml
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      9 hours ago

      It’s the free VPNs that are the problem. They are privacy nightmares.

      • thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works
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        7 hours ago

        If only there was some way the government could have predicted this would happen and maybe not rushed a poorly thought out law in the first place!

        maybe then they would not have:

        • forced big tech companies to withdraw service to the uk
        • forced uk-based small forums and message boards to close
        • given free vpn providers tons more data to sell
        • reduced the overall cyber resilience of the country by forcing people to choose between giving photos of their passports to some weird online service or signing up for a free vpn which sells their data, may inject their own unregulated adverts etc
        • reduced uk based advertising effectiveness and thus investment and marketing spend
        • pissed everyone off while doing it, scoring yet another win for the far right

        absolute roasters the lot of them

        • Balder@lemmy.world
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          5 hours ago

          Well, hold your beer because Brazil is just passing a similar law at this moment. Expect other countries to follow.