EU parliament accepted a last minute amendment, mandating age verification for pornographic (whatever that is) content online, punishable with up to one year prison sentence.
This was rolled into a directive concerning CSAM. Because adults accessing porn need to be de-anonymised to avoid child exploitation?
Are any VPN providers publicly traded?
It’ll have to be a VPN provider outside of the EU.
So basically a Swiss (PrivadoVPN, ProtonVPN), American (Hotspot Shield, IPVanish) Canadian (Tunnelbear, Windscribe), British (PureVPN), Israeli (ExpressVPN, PIA) one.
Not a lot of great options outside the EU. Canada and Britain have age verification laws, America and Israel cannot be trusted, and the Swiss government is constantly threatening to take steps against privacy.
I was thinking asian/middle east, ideally a place that does not care for US/EU
I’m not so sure about using a middle-eastern VPN to watch porn.
Why’s that?
The middle east doesn’t look at all kindly on it.
Yet theyre not a surveillance state to the same extend as the EU. So overall better I think.
Then there’s the fact that they don’t give a damn about what people do in Europe or America. As a matter of fact, to them porn and similar content is a sure way to self-destruction, so “when your enemy is doing something stupid, don’t interfere” comes into place. It’s highly unlikely they’ll block this for other countries.