Iran Outlaws VPNs Or Any Other Attempt To Get Around Filters
from the how-nice dept
If you're going to censor the internet, I guess you also have to criminalize attempts to get around the filters. That appears to be what's happened in Iran, where any kind of system to get around the filters, including VPNs, has been criminalized. Iran now gets to join Pakistan in banning VPNs.
“Based on the law, the use of VPNs or other antifiltering software is forbidden and considered a crime,”Amusingly, the reasoning given is that VPNs are part of a "soft war" from Western countries, and blocking them is a way to "confront" such Western aggression.
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Tired old ... stuff, but...
I mean, of course, all the "bad guys" will stop doing "bad things" forever.
Since the threat of getting fined will work.
Seeing as how the death penalty has stopped all murders...
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US next
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Re: Tired old ... stuff, but...
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Ahem, jokes apart, there's only so much the people can take down their throats. We'll see Iran/Pakistan springs except that I think it'll be a tad more bloody.
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Re: Congrats!
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I think the headline is wrong
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I can see anti-vpn laws coming out of DC very soon with big money backing (Bribing?) it.
Come on guys, you know you can buy this law too. What are you waiting for?
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Thus neatly outlawing security...
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> very soon with big money backing (Bribing?) it.
But unlike Iran, they won't be banned completely. Only you and I will be disallowed VPNs. The big companies who write the checks will be given an exemption and allowed to keep using them.
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Re: Thus neatly outlawing security...
People bringing in good money will be safe.
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Really though, it could just be imprisonment until they get around to you(or remember you're there). Maybe they're taking it for a test run and just removing hands so they don't have to worry about the whole internet thing from them again? Nah, they're likely just going to kill them so they don't have to worry about revenge.
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Re: Re: Thus neatly outlawing security...
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Not long before we do the same
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If you mean the death? penalty? we have in the U.S.
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Congress...
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either that or another civil war better yet a bloodless coup.
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Re: Re: Re: Selective Enforcement
There should be desperate attempts to recover the money. Is that happening? Nope, selective enforcement again.
There should be a huge on-going public discussion. Did that happen? Not officially, but the "occupy" movements are just starting the discussion now. Any sign of the politicians having any sympathy for the ordinary people? What do you think?
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Re: Not long before we do the same
After all, if the people in charge weren't shortsighted idiots with no idea what they're doing, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.
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