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submitted 1 week ago by schwim@piefed.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.world

Hi there, everyone.

I'm willing to stop using devices if necessary but I'm curious if there's any early information on how the OS is supposed to verify, who this gets passed to and how they would restrict access to the entire internet that would allow discussion on methods to circumvent this attempt.

I guess the OS could restrict the passing of information or it could be done via a check at the ISP but the fact that they're saying even mom and pop OSes do this check, it seems unlikely they'll be prepared to deploy something like that. If it's done at the ISP, I guess a packaged "passing" ID could be provided, whatever that entails.

I know this is in it's very early stages and nothing has been worked towards yet for satiating this requirement but has there been any discussion anywhere on how this might be handled?

I suspect the subsequent act will be banning VPNs so that we're not connecting to the WAN outside of our country. Perhaps this could be defeated by simply leasing a VPS in a foreign country to run a private VPN. I've read that the data looks identical to streaming a game so it might get by the geo-restriction.

I know there are no answers yet, I'm just looking for some discussion on how this might play out and how we could get around it.

Thanks for your time!

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[-] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2026
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