This is deranged, each nation’s boomers and reactionaries attempting to outdo the others: “Action to prohibit the provision of VPN services to children in the United Kingdom” … th…
They don’t do that there? I mean not open and inspect but inspect outside. In the US all pieces of mail are photographed for tracking people down after the fact.
Anyways as mail sorting is done automatically with computers blocking mailed payments to their address would be beyond trivial. Just have machines sort it straight to MI6 or the London Police or a special naughty bin. True I suppose people could use re-mailer services though those are kind of hard to find, kind of expensive, and most of them are for package forwarding for people buying from abroad so not the types of companies who would resist pressure on a front like this as this group of people would be more trouble than they’re worth making up a fraction of their business.
Yes, blocking to certain addresses is probably feasible (though international mail pretty much exclusively ignores the address, so would be extra work).
But remailing here is a pretty cheap service, about 1 dollar per package. I daresay it’d be much more available and cheap if mail was being blocked for such things. And I fail to see why overseas remailers would ever feel at all “under pressure”, they wouldn’t care about UK laws.
Obviously yes at the end of the day there’s a whole arms race to be had. My point really is just that paying in cash is exceptionally harder to seriously stop, it’d take new laws and major investment. Whereas card payments to all VPN providers can be stopped overnight with just like… a private word from a government official.
I mean the mail probably could intercept packages to mullvads addresses
Admittedly true, but way more work, and probably infeasible unless the UK restarted arbitrarily inspecting all mail
They don’t do that there? I mean not open and inspect but inspect outside. In the US all pieces of mail are photographed for tracking people down after the fact.
Anyways as mail sorting is done automatically with computers blocking mailed payments to their address would be beyond trivial. Just have machines sort it straight to MI6 or the London Police or a special naughty bin. True I suppose people could use re-mailer services though those are kind of hard to find, kind of expensive, and most of them are for package forwarding for people buying from abroad so not the types of companies who would resist pressure on a front like this as this group of people would be more trouble than they’re worth making up a fraction of their business.
Yes, blocking to certain addresses is probably feasible (though international mail pretty much exclusively ignores the address, so would be extra work).
But remailing here is a pretty cheap service, about 1 dollar per package. I daresay it’d be much more available and cheap if mail was being blocked for such things. And I fail to see why overseas remailers would ever feel at all “under pressure”, they wouldn’t care about UK laws.
Obviously yes at the end of the day there’s a whole arms race to be had. My point really is just that paying in cash is exceptionally harder to seriously stop, it’d take new laws and major investment. Whereas card payments to all VPN providers can be stopped overnight with just like… a private word from a government official.