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’.

  • melroy
    67•8 days ago

    FK France. I love the country, but I hate how the government of France is against freedom and privacy. France has also the most Internet restrictions in place of all EU countries.

    • badwetter
      -1•6 days ago

      And then what they did to Telegram. One can’t trust that platform anymore, since the spooks have been given the keys to the kingdom.

      • melroy
        2•6 days ago

        Fact! If the telegram ceo didn’t gave the keys, he was still in prison now in France.

    • sunzu2
      28•8 days ago

      Weirdly OG freedom enjoyers don’t appreciate digital freedom?

      And they are pushing this to protect “property” rights of some parasites?

    • @[email protected]English
      6•8 days ago

      Ironically, pirating is also largely ignored (unless things have changed in last couple of years) due to politicians inability to understand, and therefore, “regulate”, the internet