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Re:VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at '... by dmantis on Saturday June 20, 2026 @02:21PM (#48611545)
The first law about building technical and legal infrastructure to enable website blocking in Russia in 2012 was passed under the name of children protection. Everything else is an addition.

People from duma (the russian parlament) also publicly stated it would never use it for anything but children protection.

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Re:VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at '... by _el3m3n7 on Saturday June 20, 2026 @02:33PM (#48611660)
Certainly that could be the case. But I was specifically referring to the recent VPN crackdown
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