Trying to fight piracy like this is just an endless game of whack-a-mole. Countries should not be wasting time with laws, let the corporations suffer until they provide a better product.
Hard agree. Government exists to make the populaces life better. It’s WHY we replaced kings with it. And yet …
Don’t want this to happen? Vote for a left wing party in your area or nationally. Change won’t be immediate, but every vote counts. The right wingers are friends of business and unfettered capitalism. They will let this happen time and time again.
And get invested in local movements for actual left representation, especially in the US where we’re stuck with 2 far right parties.
Even when the so-called left wingers were in charge, they didn’t do Jack squat. They’re both worthless
Sure, the anticapitalists won’t be anticapitalistic. That’s just an excuse not to vote “they’re both the same”, then wonder why right wingers keep driving countries closer to the cliff edge.
Their antics are theater. Have you not figured this out yet? They pretend to be on opposite teams.
Sucks if you’re in France. For the rest of us it should be interesting to see which of these VPN providers choose to comply by geo-blocking France, which choose to cut any ties they have with France and otherwise ignore the order, and which to abandon their mission and become agents of censorship on behalf of France.
- They will comply
- The rest of us won’t be far behind
They stand to lose a good portion of their business if they can’t service France. They’ll comply.
They stand to lose a lot more business if they bend the knee. What person is going to use a hamstringed VPN? It almost completely misses the point of having one.
Malicious compliance could be of help? For example, blocking the streaming sites for their endpoints that are local to France, if any?
Likely. What I said has more to do with “we’re next.” If this is successful in France, other countries will follow suit or at the very least get pressure from the IP lobby to follow.
This will just create an underground DNS system
Not efective against DPI censorship.
Already have an alternative using pihole using unbound
The rest of us
Speak for yourself.
I am sorry your VPN provider sucks so much that you are sure of something that hasn’t even happened yet. Time to switch to a good one, am I right?
