ProtonVPN: Site Blocking Is an Attack on Users' Online Freedom * TorrentFreak
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ProtonVPN says efforts to include VPNs in France's piracy blocking scheme is 'a dangerous attack on Internet freedom on the altar of corporate greed'.

In France, rightsholders have taken legal action to get large VPN providers on board with their pirate site blocking program. The aim is to prevent circumvention of existing blocking measures in place to reduce widespread copyright infringement. From the VPN provider’s perspective, site blocking threatens online freedom. Swiss provider ProtonVPN describes blocking as ‘a dangerous attack on Internet freedom on the altar of corporate greed’.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    And unless they want to send their troops into another country to tell that ISP what sites to block they can’t block them.

    If you believe this statement to be accurate at all you’re not paying attention…

    I helped Syrian and Egyptian dissidents to circumvent internet blockages during the Arab Spring. I have absolutely been paying attention.

    • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      And unless they want to send their troops into another country to tell that ISP what sites to block they can’t block them.

      As I said to the other guy, I’m exclusively referencing France here…

      • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        7 days ago

        Right, but if I’m in France and get my friend in Kazakhstan to plug in a Pi to create a VPN - which is pretty trivial provided you have a Kazakh friend - how will the French stop the Kazakh ISP from letting a computer in Kazakhstan access a website that is legal in Kazakhstan?