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Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing (www.eff.org)
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[–] 31 points 9 months ago (3 children)

When it comes to anything technical, lawmakers are typically unqualified to make any assessment on how best to protect the public. They constantly want to introduce back doors, ban encryption, or other nonsense because they think they’ll magically uncover hackers, pedos, and terrorists. In reality they’re just making the technology less secure or flat out breaking how things are supposed to work.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    Years ago, there was an issue similar to this that came up and at the time the article's author made a great point about 4 items that should be asked of any politician considering policy regarding the internet.

    The question is: "Explain the differences between the internet, the World Wide Web, a browser and a search engine, and can you do so without one of your assistants telling you."

    If any politician can't correctly identify what each is, they really have no business trying to regulate the technology.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I think your view of it is honestly a little positive. In reality, I think a lot of it is an intentional erosion of privacy to eventually implement a surveillance state and control the population completely.

    scumbag US politicians want what China has lol

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