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COUNTRIES THAT BAN OR RESTRICT VPN SERVICES: Iran, Belarus, Iraq, North Korea, Turkmenistan, China, Russia, Egypt, India, Myanmar, Oman… United Kingdom?
This is probably referring to this: https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/gadgets-tech/vpn-ban-uk-b2939311.html
An older post from Mulvad about their issues advertising in the UK: https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk
That’s a low bar considering they don’t list the ping time for each server and are banned by most websites that screen for VPN’s. Nor do they allow port-forwarding. -I say all this while still connected to Mullvad.
Yikes what’s with the ?
Are they implying the UK genocide regime is better than the other countries?
It’s pretty obvious they are asking if the UK is next to block VPNs.
That said, I will agree that there is a second layer meaning. “These are the sorts of governments you will be aligning with following this policy”.
The UK is/was a colonial power. Usually those oppress people outside the country, but keep the people within relatively happy. Rights for the internal group but not external ones. A form of profiteering and oppression.
By comparison, most of the countries listed here crack down regularly on the rights of people within their country, and this is the direction the UK goes in when they ban protests and privacy.
Oppression is oppression, and oppression is bad.
An ad criticizing the UK posted on the metro so it has government approval from the same government I suppose? It gives me bad vibes that it’s now gotten so big to have metro ads, I trusted it more when it was a lesser known VPN that no one was pushing on you
I also liked them more when they weren’t popular. Second album is better, move towards keyboards was a mistake, bring back original bassist, went to hell when the drummer died, etc.
