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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
Iran, Belarus, Iraq, North Korea, Turkmenistan, China, Russia, Egypt, India, Myanmar, Oman… United Kingdom?
Hey! Don’t forget Utah! First state in the US pass a VPN ban. Wisconsin came close, but sanity prevailed there. Utah’s bill also appears to directly violate the first amendment to the US constitution. It criminalizes certain speech by sites related to giving VPN instructions.
Love Mullvad
Yeah right now mulvad is the goat for VPNs.
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.
Yeah it’s just easy to use and cheap. I know it’s CIA. So is my ISP. Neither are seriously bound by legality.
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.
their brutal dictatorships versus… our shining democracy?
are the mullvad people aware the UK is a monarchy?
Their server list always made this statement implicitly. I’m glad they’re getting more into the blatant fed marketing since people will be able to see it.
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 understand what you’re saying, but as long as they keep operating in the same way while gaining users it’s better for everyone. More users means more privacy because it gets harder to tell traffic from different users apart.
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.
