Did the Zionist entity tell them it would be antisemitism to interfere with their intelligence operations? Must have.
The reasons why they would stop doing anything are few and far between and certainly not because they listened to the people. Might also be because popular VPNs might be honeypots for law enforcement and the effect on spying potential would be net negative. What is certain that the people are really driving this don’t give a single shit about kids, beside that they want them growing up on their selected propaganda platforms.
Maybe the big websites realized this would hamper their profits and told the government to cut it out.
I’m surprised they let it get this far, then
Probably just because businesses use VPNs to connect workers to their intranet and it’s difficult to nail down the distinction to make “evil” VPNs illegal but not the “good” VPNs.
People need to stop spreading this. It’s false and it’s dangerous because it presumes a basket of things that isn’t. It is incredibly easy to identify commercial VPNs meant for anonymity, skipping geo-blocks, torrenting, etc and separate them from those used for secure access to internal networks. For starters all traffic has an address. Those commercial VPN providers used easily and quickly identified servers for which off-the-shelf weekly/daily updated lists of IPs can be purchased from commercial companies. There are other things like traffic analysis but it’s frankly not necessary.
If the UK or the US wanted to block commercial VPNs entirely they could do so very easily. China and Russia have no interest in running no-logs VPNs for westerners to escape their censorship regimes and put in that kind of effort as the west has put into their own VPNs and solutions to enable “dissidents” (CIA provocateurs and liberals) to communicate. People single out China because they can’t block all VPNs, well the GFW designer said it isn’t meant to stop everyone just introduce friction so anyone who does so has to have gone against the current and hopefully knows their stuff. The technical means of doing so which the west has isn’t even getting into their control of the world financial system, they can seize bank accounts, arrest the people running these services, sanction and fine the hosting companies in the west for hosting them, deplatform them, etc. And the problem there is that the anti-west: China, Russia, etc are not interesting in hosting this stuff for westerners outside of western jurisdiction.
Probably not. They could just make subscribing into one illegal. It’s not like they even planned to set up some great UK firewall to sieve connections that are possible VPN tunnels.
think citrix is a bigger factor than israel here tbh
imagine the bourgeois western media coverage if it was China
Getting the less computer literate to ID themselves was the point. That’s still most people. Getting the rest is a lot less clean. Trying to police VPNs crosses into being a tradeoff.
The majority are still tech-illiterate and won’t know how to use VPN’s. Only upside is that maybe the younger generations will America worship just a little bit less because those apps have only made it worse
Some capitalists must have made phone calls and said “no”
