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What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 6 months ago by BD89@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I know it isn't specific to just Linux but I use Linux anyway so my question is,

Is there a way you could use a VPN without them knowing that? Or if they outlaw them is it really just game over?

If they made VPNs illegal I suppose stuff like TOR would follow except TOR is partly funded by the US state department and the US is one of my countries closest allies (one of the five eyes). So surely they wouldn't shut down something the US funds directly... Would they?

I've read very very little about Gemini and other protocols like Gopher, would this be the way forward if they do this? And is that even remotely close to the security and potential anonymity you would receive from a VPN?

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[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

As a person from the UK, I am fully expecting them to implement this in the next year or two, because ruining the internet seems to be the government's top priority rather than say, fixing the economy or preventing Reform from taking over for some fucking reason.

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