| ▲ | vidarh a day ago |
| Guess Australia will get a lot of kids well-versed in VPN use. |
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| ▲ | gregoryl a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| I've recently been teaching kids to code (in Aus) - 7 year olds already know about VPNs, and use them to circumvent various roadblocks to playing roblox! |
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| ▲ | AlchemistCamp a day ago | parent [-] | | Few things in this world can stop kids from finding a way to play their favorite video games. |
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| ▲ | lm28469 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| According to recent studies kids don't know what a file or a folder is and can't even copy/paste anymore, I think we have a good margin. |
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| ▲ | vidarh a day ago | parent | next [-] | | You don't need any of those things to figure out how to install a VPN. My son had installed a VPN before he knew those concepts because a VPN mattered to him to circumvent region locks while knowing what folders are didn't. | |
| ▲ | whimsicalism 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | file/folder abstractions are irrelevant for most mobile users. VPN is a different axis | |
| ▲ | Toorkit a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | "Hey guys, it's time to talk about our sponsor, Surf shark VPN" |
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| ▲ | Hizonner a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Until they ban VPNs. Moral panics acknowledge no bounds of sanity. |
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| ▲ | vidarh a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Banning VPNs requires significant investment in filtering traffic, because the VPNs these kids will be using won't be hosted in Australia. | |
| ▲ | cherryteastain a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Even China does not have a blanket VPN ban | | |
| ▲ | hn_acker a day ago | parent [-] | | The extent to which China "does not have a blanket VPN ban" is of no help to people who want to bypass the Great Firewall. |
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| ▲ | ocschwar a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| What we'll learn first is how schools use the new law as a tool for limiting device access in general and kids spend 8 hours a day reliving Gen-X. |
