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This will initially go the same way as the porn ban that's being enacted all over Europe — VPN usage will skyrocket, people will still do whatever they want.

Then they will have to resort to the only other alternative: require a government ID and static IP allocation to access to the internet, for complete surveillance and traceability. You know it's coming.



A lot of people have bought real, legal, government IDs from places like Palau[] which sell them for like $300 and no crime is committed by doing so.

[] https://rns.id/app/palauidinfo


I guess what the parent is saying is that every user will be issued a private/public key pair to be able to access the internet. You can, maybe, buy one. But it’ll be easy for the gov. to ban it.


"All over Europe" meaning UK, France, and Italy.


If you think it’s gonna be limited to those three you haven’t been paying attention.


Nobody cares about privacy coins but criminals.

There's 0 real world cases for them except some extremely far fetched ones.




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