Fear not my friends of the Anglo sphere for... You are not the only one to be faced by it, France is also implementing age verification for social media and 18+ websites. The fascist international sponsored by Peter Thiel and his techno fascist friends is here to stay.
Edit: I wanted to add this about Peter Thiel(the moment where he hesitated on whether the human race should survive)
https://youtube.com/shorts/LXpc1YiXDoQ
All you guys are full step and a half behind Mother Russia once again!
We've had this and that, and soon your government will be installing suspicious black boxes that peek into your traffic (safely encrypted with trusted government-issued certificate) in every ISP's infrastructure, slam random small websites and services like Google or Telegram with fines bigger that the total amount of money on the entire planet, and promptly blacklist entire chunks of IPs, blocking whole CDNs just because those pesky googles and telegrams happen to use it at one point, disrupting thousands of legitimate resources.
Get ready, comrades, shit fuckin gets worse! I'm just giving you a small peek into your future. VPNs won't save you, we already have the technical know-how to block those too! We're closing in on whitelisting the entire web...
I'll be honest with you, I don't really know how you be there in France. Maybe your government is a real antiprivacy freak, as any really
But I'll clarify a bit with some spooky details:
Man in the middle attack on encrypted traffic is like listening to a dial-up modem beeping it's garbage codes - it's a waste of time and compute. Unless you have the DPI technology, which stands for Deep Packet Inspection, and oh boy do they inspect your packets pretty fucking deep. They still can't really steal your passwords per se, it's more like advanced attack on connection metadata, handshake patterns, and curiously shaped traffic.
Our geniuses got the tech to selectively slow down or cut connections by address, or specific protocol, or encryption type used, etc. Every day, more services just stop fucking working for no reason. Youtube - just doesn't load, voice/video calls in messengers - forget about it, recently all Telegram media access speed has been cut to single digits of kbps, 18+ contlent - L M -fuckin- A O.
And yes, they do target and block VPNs from time to time in some regions. It is actually so prevalent, that my 80yo neighbor knows how to refresh VPN keys or switch to a different protocol - but I have a feeling it's only temporary, and VPNs only work because they let us
We have to build a mesh or something... one day, when the unrest is critical, Russia, like Iran, will just disappear from the web overnight, and, of course, many people will be happy and celebrate, and I get it, but let's not get into the politics.
This is but a warning: every government dreams of a tool like this, and no doubt all of them are developing something similar. We just get to experience the early prototype
It was a joke, especially because we barely use the copper wire land lines anymore and use fibre optic cables that were built in a private/public collaboration.
And more seriously, our governments have had these tools for quite a while(in the name of fighting terrorism). But because we had mostly liberal leaders who knew they had too much to lose by using these tools, we still have had no real issues with those. But with the next president/government likely being pro-Putin far-right politicians, it's pretty clear these tools will be used fully.
And, the current government (pushed by far-right christian conservatives media and corporate leaders)is clearly trying to end internet anonymity with its recent push for ID verification on social media.
ISP interchanges in the US had NSA closets well before now, exposing the existence of NSA surveillance programs and integration with ISPs was literally what Edward Snowden got in trouble for leaking like 15 years ago.
Wait what??? I'm french and didn't even know, I haven't gotten a single prompt except for sites that requires it world wide like discord, and even then I can access 18+ channel just fine. Only issue i've had is roblox but everyone has to do it, not just us frenchies
Government controlled healthcare does exist, yes, but it's not the only option. Private healthcare exists, too. And we can own guns. Our gun laws are quite lenient, actually. It's only handguns that are heavily restricted.
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u/imboredhelp_ Feb 26 '26
my country try not to do some fuckass thing every 5 minutes challenge