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⚡🇪🇺 NEW - EU Vice-President “suggests”restricting VPNs to prevent citizens from circumventing EU's age-restrictions of the Internet

EU Vice-President Henna Virkkunen is helping roll out a new EU age verification app. But the app can be bypassed with simple tools like a VPN

When a reporter asked how the EU will stop kids from using VPNs to get around the rules, Virkkunen said:

“It’s difficult, of course, to have the technological solutions that there’s no way to circumvent … it’s also an important part of next steps to look at [the issue] that it shouldn’t be circumvented.”
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deleted account · 17w
They can learn from the Chinese about using VPNs to circumvent restrictions.
marksn · 17w
ask putin or xi
Sugestor Ultra · 17w
My webtunel bridges rolled their eyes
freemymind 🇨🇭 · 17w
To assume restricting the use of VPN by the words "look at steps that it shouldn’t be circumvented" is quiet a stretch. I doupt heavily anyone could find majorities to push such laws.
Copinmalin · 17w
Il serait plus simple pour eux de revendiquer la coupure à internet directement, comme ça les enfants seront protégé Ou pas : https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2026/03/20/trois-hommes-dont-deux-animateurs-interpelles-pour-des-faits-d-agressions-sexuelles-dans-des-ecoles-parisiennes_667277...
ChadXMR · 17w
I don't think she actually mentioned banning VPNs?
Noah · 17w
Europe is fake and gay
The_Crin · 17w
if China, even with its entire surveillance system, has failed to prevent its people from using VPNs, which ensures that the EU can even try?
deeznuts · 17w
Make me a sandwich