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I fully expect that just as citizens in China have had to VPN into other countries and use those countries’ services to avoid their government’s censorship, we’re going to start seeing the US and UK users doing this as well.
Eu is starting to talk about this too now. Where are we all gonna vpn to if the entire world has their own version of locked internet gates?
Realistically, it’s all about who has jurisdiction over you, and who will assist the people with jurisdiction over you. I use countries that are less than chummy with the US for my VPN exit nodes, because they’re far less likely to issue any subpoenas or comply with data requests from US companies.
Just as I suspect that e.g. Canada may be less likely to assist China in unmasking internet users, and thus be safer for Chinese users as a VPN exit node, the inverse is also true.
Ha, so much for the idea of Bluesky being any better than the rest.
It’s that or block the UK. Would be cool if they had the stones to do it, though.
Driving wider adoption of alternative social media and privacy tools.
Although I expect them to try to come for us and our tools at some point.
The best thing that could happen to the UK is that most internet sites just didn’t bother and stopped serving the UK. Kind of like how some US sites decline to serve up pages to European visitors because they couldn’t be bothered to be GDPR-compliant.
Unlike Europe though, the UK isn’t big enough to matter all that much. So if a large enough number of sites stopped catering to UK visitors, the authorities would quickly backpedal.
