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Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Every company and its mother uses a vpn for a variety of work related stuff. And I'm not talking about remote working, but secure connections, remote assistance, communications between different work sites... Banning vpns as a whole is so stupid that I'd love to see them try and crash the economy.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

you fail to recognize that the process will involve simply kissing the boots and approved vpns will be fine. (backdoors included)