I haven’t read too deeply, but I found this quote
“information and communications technology products and services holdings that pose undue or unacceptable risk”
Read More: New RESTRICT Act Could Mean 20 Years In Prison For Using A VPN To Access Banned Apps
So that sounds like anyone who has a router or server that could be a VPN server, or even anyone that has a computer with an OS that has a VPN client (or even my mobile phone) could find themselves with a problem.
using a VPN to get around the ban would be illegal, not the act of using VPNs themself.
so is the default assumption thar vpn use means you have something to hide, or are they going to force vpn providers to tell them everything users do so they can see if you’re accessing tiktok or just looking up information on having a miscarriage?
Problem is if you can’t use a VPN to circumvent such bans then the VPN isn’t providing its advertised service.
The bill would make running a VPN server impossible, at least in the free and open format we’re accustomed to.
Yes, the intent is clearly to ban using VPN to circumvent the TikTok ban, not banning every VPN usage.
I also read on other fear mongering posts that they want to ban all VPN, SSL, and even password… LOL.
Exactly how I understood it as well. It’s like having a police scanner isn’t illegal, unless you’re using said scanner to further a crime.
strongarming VPNs into doing what the government wants is an egregious violation of privacy and only opens the door to more restrictions
Distribution of pirated content is already illegal. This bill doesn’t change that.
Louis has another video on alternative-to-this EU bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE06Tw9UWM8
Looks similar to me, except its not NSA/military squeeze, but general “safety” advocates who are just incompetent+malevolent vs corrupt+malevolent. Also, individual EU countries are catching up to this in bad way. Like my little Latvia pushed all buttons and passed a gov. secrecy/anti-accountability law in record speeds in 2 days, after it was dormant for 5 years.
I mean Russia already did this some years ago, avoiding competent cop agency work and accountability with wanna be tech magic bullet that all served as another opression tool for mafia and the dictator from get-go. “Everything for friends, law for enemies”
Even on downward trend, US, EU, UK, Canada are miles and miles above of China/Russia/Iran here, but still.
What’s the acts purpose? There’s very little precision there. It’s certainly not about TikTok.
who undermine our elections and commit espionage against us
There’s already laws against that.
Its the goal here in the UK as the UK government are idiots.
That’s open to debate.
[edit] text of the bill
a SC a captured by the federalist society will say it squares away just fine
What is '“this”? The Restrict Act? Or are you referring to something else?
edit: downvoted for asking clarifying questions?
I’ve seen this movie before.
I guess today you learned that Democrats are center right. Always have been.
Politics is never about left or right. Sure, there are some that have actual values, but most, especially the ones high up are just opportunistic crooks who will do anything for power. The party they belong to is just a means to an end.
Left and right talking points are just here to keep the public busy with arguments while they work on crap like this behind closed doors without bringing the public into the discussion.
So you are saying US leaning towards Nazi Germany?
Yeah he’s mine as well, so I hear about him frequently. He has advocated to ban tic tok, but specifically ban Tiktoc and says he wants no new powers given to gov.
Restrict act was introduced and sponsored by a Democrat from VA.
Looks like they see a popular issue and now want to load it up with crap & overreach. A few R’s on board as well. Vote them all out!
True, but surely this law only works within the US so a VPN hosted in Denmark or Sweden for example wouldn’t have to comply with it, besides, how would they (or your ISP) know what your accessing via the VPN, all they can see is that your accessessing a VPN, unless they crack the SHA256 encryption a VPN uses
yea, the language is very broad and (like most of US federal law, unspecified) but I highly doubut (call me an optimist or whatever) they would ever outlaw anything like that. I mean, that quote means they could outlaw pretty much every router OS there is and every varient of Linux, I highly dobut they would do that
Sometimes I hate living in the UK because guesters at the current shitshow but I’m glad we’d never do anything like this because my governement isn’t smart enough to actually do it.