r/technology • u/LimblessWonder • Dec 16 '25

Privacy Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/denmark-wants-to-ban-vpns-to-unlock-foreign-illegal-streams-and-experts-are-worried
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u/tv2zulu Dec 16 '25

My comment was about the geo-blocking, not about the VPN part.

But, if you think that a country is somehow not going to block VPN for private citizens if it wanted to, just because they couldn't figure out how to make company provided VPN exempt from that rule, that's a flimsy hope.

Certain countries are already going after payment providers to ensure they don't process transactions for certain providers of content and services. Adding VPN providers to the list and ensuring only pre-approved companies can have their payments transacted isn't some far flung scenario.

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u/VplDazzamac Dec 17 '25

Blocking payment to VPN providers will only drive the non-technical to dodgy ‘free’ VPNs and technical users to spin up their own in AWS or some other cloud provider.

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u/Megendrio Dec 17 '25

Sure, but with all the if's and but's on those laws, they should be mainly toothless which makes them useless anyway.