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      Yeah I’ve been very happy with them.

      No experience with their software, but the service is great — I have an ARM SBC with WireGuard handling my tunnels, and my router does the rest (so my TV/guest SSID/personal SSID/whatever can get routed over Mullvad with no client setup). My DNS forwarders are each routed through a different Mullvad interface too.

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    Don’t worry. As we’re all law abiding citizens we have nothing to fear from this. This law will only be used to protect children from pedophiles by looking through everyone’s laundry (except the epstein league’s) and to hunt terrorists (such as the senior citizens supporting Palestine action).

    /s

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    I think this has already been shot down. I’m pretty sure the Lords said they’d block this.

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      For now maybe, if they are proposing it they will do it later when they can, just as they will further cancel jury trials when they can. Right now doling out up to 3 years in prison via magistrates the famously cuntish legal dickheads appoint.

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      I think the idea is that any VPN that doesn’t comply gets IP blocked. But that’s obviously a cat and mouse game since VPN services are a dime a dozen and you can always rent a VPS and tunnel to a respectable VPN through it.

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        Also all of this assumes we’re in a purely ipv4 paradigm. IPv6 has essentially infinite direct addresses that can be used.

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        It’s more like mouse and bazooka: you might hit the mouse, but you’ll destroy your whole house at the same time.

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        That is probably true but the average person won’t be able to get past the stage finding a non-IP-blocked VPN.

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          Not necessarily, sure the average person will have a much harder time, but inevitably, word of mouth networks form and people quickly share which VPN isn’t currently caught by the blocks. That’s how it is in mainland China, and they have very strict DPI going on so the word of mouth workarounds are like “use this shadowsocks provider” etc

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    This is the “good option” electorally too. Yay, labour won, we won! Then they lock down the internet, put Thiel that wants to spray the political opposition and critics with fentanyl with drones is brought in to give you secret social scores based on all of your activity they have identified you with.

    As if it will stop there. Then they cancel jury trials for up to 3 years in prison. Create a masterbaitorbase. Now track vpn’s, enough already, throw these bums out, they are doing more damage than the fucking tories did, and are throwing the country to the far right. Get a real leader, not the handpicked sucessor with the reasonable sounding voice that is mandelson’s protege that like starmer made his career on purging labor of the left and popular reform by kicking people out for criticizing Israel and other demonstratable fabricated lies.

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      This is a wonderful combination with the no jury trial thing.

      “Suspicious internet activity” and then a judge throws you away for 6 months with zero effort.

      Sounds like a great deterrent/ enforcement system to me.

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        Their legal system is rather famously aristocratic, snobby, and contemptuous of working people too. They are all the epitomy of the Old Boy Network, they follow the leader so they don’t get kicked out of the club too. So their choosing a magistrate to send people to prison for up to three years on their own accord is unthinkable, and unacceptable in this context.

        Seriously it’s won’t end with 3 years either, they will continue to sabotage the workings of the courts, dragging out cases, then again say look accused rapists haven’t been tried after years of waiting, so clearly the only option is to cancel our freedoms and surrender it to the oligarchy. Same basic strategy of thatcherism and Reaganism, sabotaging something and using the excuse to privatize it or cut it further, saying public options don’t work when it worked until they made sure it didn’t.

        Before long whole categories of crimes will be removed to magistrates, and I’m betting protesters now being charged with serious crimes for protests that are disfavored, seperate from the fake terror designations this happened before, people being charged with over ten years in prison, will be removed from jury trials if they get more acquittals.

        They did get a bunch of acquittals, and the judges/legal system disallowed the defenses they were using in court, saying why they protested, ie climate protesters, environmental, which is the other force behind this other than Israel, it’s to protect oil and other polluters from protest and scrutiny.

        So after they disallowed they got more convictions, and these buttoned up do gooder middle class britons have to throw themselves at the mercy of these judges that were chosen to have contempt for them, that would have them executed if they could, rather than being not guilty if the legal system wasn’t rigged for the prosecution.

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      Starmer is not spineless so much as in on it. He made his career selling out to the rich and connected. His likely successor is of the same vein, and also mandelson’s protege, can’t remember his name, he’s a reasonable sounding voice and seems like he’s not a piece of shit but he is.

      Why is the pick of the party someone that is subservient to Epstein’s co conspirators?

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    I mean technically you can make JUST the age verification without identification, using a cryptographic protocol. But I doubt they would build it that way.