Elektrine lite

← Feed

@LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world

Concerns Mount That EU Will Demand Age Verification for VPNs

2026-05-08 17:46 UTC

A European Union research service publishes a paper about calls for VPN regulation, noting that they’re ‘increasingly used to bypass online age verification.’

Replies (10)

  • @disorderly@lemmy.world 2026-05-08 18:32

    Truly a "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" moment. We live in an unprecedented time where American technological hegemony is being rejected globally, but especially in Europe. People want performant, durable, respectful software offerings, and are increasingly looking away from the Valley and the Street for answers. So let's jump on board with becoming part of the extended American surveillance state! Yee fucking haw.

    Open ##2526191

  • @Naich@piefed.world 2026-05-08 19:12

    Trying to solve social problems with technology always works.

    Open ##2526192

  • @evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-08 19:25

    When are they gonna ban fake mustaches and makeup?

    Open ##2526193

  • Are they going to ban tor too?

    Open ##2526194

  • @MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 2026-05-08 22:31

    So... Make vpn do the opposite if it's very purpose. Excellent. We're cooked.

    Open ##2526195

  • @WongKaKui@piefed.ca 2026-05-08 19:47

    Great Firewall of Europe

    Open ##2526196

  • @Teknikal@anarchist.nexus 2026-05-08 18:16

    Will send people to Tor more than likely and that's all I think it achieves, so bit of an own goal.

    Open ##2526197

  • @newton@feddit.online 2026-05-09 07:57

    For every door that is closed, we break open another

    Open ##2526198

  • @Crt_static@lemmy.world 2026-05-08 22:07

    What's to stop people buying Mullvad with XMR?

    Open ##2526199

  • @liinux@pawb.social 2026-05-08 17:57

    I don't want to start a war here, but I don't get why people argue that the EU is better than the US because X or Z. We just side with who is the "less bad" and who action's directly affect us less or more according to our standards and reality. This is just plain bullshit, at this point why they don't just convert their hidden dictatorships to real dictatorships? Let's censure everything, everything is bad, fuck that.

    Open ##2526200