A great summary of VPN technology. There is peer-reviewed research that identifies the problem facing online teens isn't so much social media as ubiquitous access to smart phones. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12588125/
Beneath all of this too is a desire by Forces of Evil and Darkness to control access to and content on the internet. Developments in the UK provide some insights as to where all of this censorship nonsense may end.
One of the best summaries of VPNs. I have several of the free ones on my computers, they are OK, but not quite in the same league as Surfshark, a pay to use one. I have worked for 3 organisations now that required VPNs for access to their network, presumably MPs and public servants would also? Have they given a moments thought to this?
I had not thought of downloading VPNs onto a USB stick, but will now, given the childish trash ex politicians. And yes the black market for these will be welcome!
On the matter of extra-territory law, it’s fascinating to watch the legal battle just starting between the UK OFCOM and the 4Chan site in the USA
Some kind of weird licensing system that requires a digital ID in order to use a VPN?
Honestly - what is National thinking on this? Labour-light indeed. As an aside, this is the first sensible position I have heard from the Greens since Rod Donald's time.
The idea that VPN's are easily accessed by under 16's? It's fine if they have high credit limits on their cards. $180USD/two year subscriptions for the non-pwned VPN's is not exactly easy for the average under 16yo in NZ.
A ban on VPN's wouldn't hand anything to anyone. The black boxes in the exchanges mean that there is no [potential] privacy without one, and that doesn't take into account the browser trail of destruction.
Operating without those considerations is pure fully.
Of course a real civilisation would not let minors near a computer before they could read, write, do arithmetic, play a musical instrument to , say, grade 7 Trinity level, and have conversational fluency in another language. Such was apparent to the serious IT professionals I dealt with in the 90's.
I believe the issue is the individualisation of internet regulation. Preventing children, or any other group, accessing the internet will not stop the online stream of falsehoods and abuse and information on, for example, how to commit crimes, or fake news, from being made available to adults.
NZers, including our media, did not care about the countries that have had their elections and political systems undermined by use of the internet (See Maria Ressa 'How to Stand Up to a Dictator' for a detailed fact based description of how this happened in the Philippines over a decade ago). We don't know the content or volume of false material that is being posted to NZ social media.
I believe in open and transparent debate but the framing of your concern about censorship of the internet seems naive to me. The Broadcasting Standards Authority has faults but we need some equivalent for the internet.
A BSA for the Internet? An interesting concet but how do you enforce that in a world without borders. Unless you get the Dept of Intrernal Affairs to block content - and thats called censorship
Read Maria Ressa on the misuse of social media over a decade ago during which there have been no controls placed on social media content and no effective taxing of the companies.... It's a short book and you would learn something.
I am familiar with that. The problem I have with controls is who is the controller. The taxing of thePlatforms is a different matter but the law is clear that any person can organise their affairs in such a way to pay the least amount of tax required by law. If that means utilising tax havens - well and good
A great summary of VPN technology. There is peer-reviewed research that identifies the problem facing online teens isn't so much social media as ubiquitous access to smart phones. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12588125/
Beneath all of this too is a desire by Forces of Evil and Darkness to control access to and content on the internet. Developments in the UK provide some insights as to where all of this censorship nonsense may end.
One of the best summaries of VPNs. I have several of the free ones on my computers, they are OK, but not quite in the same league as Surfshark, a pay to use one. I have worked for 3 organisations now that required VPNs for access to their network, presumably MPs and public servants would also? Have they given a moments thought to this?
I had not thought of downloading VPNs onto a USB stick, but will now, given the childish trash ex politicians. And yes the black market for these will be welcome!
On the matter of extra-territory law, it’s fascinating to watch the legal battle just starting between the UK OFCOM and the 4Chan site in the USA
Some kind of weird licensing system that requires a digital ID in order to use a VPN?
Honestly - what is National thinking on this? Labour-light indeed. As an aside, this is the first sensible position I have heard from the Greens since Rod Donald's time.
The idea that VPN's are easily accessed by under 16's? It's fine if they have high credit limits on their cards. $180USD/two year subscriptions for the non-pwned VPN's is not exactly easy for the average under 16yo in NZ.
A ban on VPN's wouldn't hand anything to anyone. The black boxes in the exchanges mean that there is no [potential] privacy without one, and that doesn't take into account the browser trail of destruction.
Operating without those considerations is pure fully.
Of course a real civilisation would not let minors near a computer before they could read, write, do arithmetic, play a musical instrument to , say, grade 7 Trinity level, and have conversational fluency in another language. Such was apparent to the serious IT professionals I dealt with in the 90's.
Please note that New Zealand is a signatory of this document: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_2695
And your point? There are some serious internal contradictions in the rhetoric accompanying that release.
I believe the issue is the individualisation of internet regulation. Preventing children, or any other group, accessing the internet will not stop the online stream of falsehoods and abuse and information on, for example, how to commit crimes, or fake news, from being made available to adults.
NZers, including our media, did not care about the countries that have had their elections and political systems undermined by use of the internet (See Maria Ressa 'How to Stand Up to a Dictator' for a detailed fact based description of how this happened in the Philippines over a decade ago). We don't know the content or volume of false material that is being posted to NZ social media.
I believe in open and transparent debate but the framing of your concern about censorship of the internet seems naive to me. The Broadcasting Standards Authority has faults but we need some equivalent for the internet.
A BSA for the Internet? An interesting concet but how do you enforce that in a world without borders. Unless you get the Dept of Intrernal Affairs to block content - and thats called censorship
Read Maria Ressa on the misuse of social media over a decade ago during which there have been no controls placed on social media content and no effective taxing of the companies.... It's a short book and you would learn something.
I am familiar with that. The problem I have with controls is who is the controller. The taxing of thePlatforms is a different matter but the law is clear that any person can organise their affairs in such a way to pay the least amount of tax required by law. If that means utilising tax havens - well and good
I take it you haven't read her book? Your response is still at the level of interactions with the individual user of social media.
https://lnkd.in/p/eQCXgeTx