There are plenty of valid reasons to use a VPN that don't involve illegal activity. I hope they figure out a better way of addressing this issue.
I disagree with the VPN ban, but I understand the purpose.
Isn't there a better way? Is there a back end that can be added to scan uploads for matching CSAM hashes?
Admins are doing both. (Am an admin of another instance, not lemmy.world).
Fact is is that the people who ask for privacy behind the VPN are very flippant when it comes to actual attacks. Everyone is pretty quick to forget the CSAM and spam attacks that were happening only a couple of weeks ago.
I used to think "Yeah go privacy, go anonymous", but the fact is that bad actors ruined that for everyone else, so yeah, had to clamp down. For anyone who disagrees, I welcome them to host their own instance where they can allow anyone and anything. They can take up the fight with their respective governments, I'm going to focus on the people who are just here to hang out and chill.
That's incredibly trivial to bypass
Wow, I feel more justified than ever in leaving World.
First they blocked the piracy communities, then the mushroom/psychedelic communities, and now vpns? No thanks.
Posting this while using Mullvad and Voyager
Is it only some Mullvad servers that are flagged/blocked? I’ve used quite a few different servers (across North America and the EU) through Mullvad VPN and lemmy.world hasn’t blocked me afaik.
Good question.
It's an old comment, but yes. I'm using NordVPN and it seems the San Francisco server is also blocked from commenting. It results in a 401.
This comment was posted using Voyager and a VPN (SurfShark).
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