Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes

Re:Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes by ben_w on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @09:32AM (#43172328)

All the alternative app stores can easily be subject to the same legal requirements as Apple.

Side-loading is harder to enforce any rules over, of course.

Blocking domains is well-established at this point, thanks to the copyright industry doing a 21.5-year whack-a-mole-waltz with The Pirate Bay. Of course, this also demonstrates the limited effectiveness of domain blocking.

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Re:Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes by walrus01 on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @09:40AM (#43172433)

> Of course, this also demonstrates the limited effectiveness of domain blocking.

Extremely limited effectiveness, when VPN operators like Mullvad are corporations based in Sweden and offer 5 euro a month service to bypass whatever local "mess with internet traffic" activity, whether government-caused or not, that someone's last mile ISP is up to...

There's also the game of whack a mole with taking ownership of domains at the registrar/ICANN level through court orders, such as with the various .com or similar things that get jacked and plastered with a "DOMAIN HAS BEEN SEIZED" notice by the US feds.

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