Europe thrives with a plurality of languages and cultures, generating jobs and global exports. The TV and film industry alone demonstrates the power of EU creative industries across languages.
www.advanced-television.com/2025/05/27/r... #geoblocking #mediaplurality #tv #film #publishing
Meta now training on EU user data:
"to understand the “diverse nuances and complexities that make up European communities,” referring to dialects and “hyper-local knowledge.”
#GeoBlocking #plurality #privacy https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/german-privacy-watchdog-scraps-plans-to-stop-meta-ai-training-on-personal-data/
When can we declare IP Geo location / country code blocking practically dead as a mitigation strategy?
Sure it is still useful blocking script kiddies from Iran and other low hanging fruit, but do any serious APT crews actually launch attacks from their home country anymore?
With the use of zero trust, distributed attack and delivery networks (looking at you Cloudflare), and VPN usage country blocking feels less useful than in the past.
@EUCommission My proposal for unlocking the potential of one particular 
creative industry (one we invented in Europe) is to smack Ruben Östlund and all politicians he's lobbied for #geoblocking over the head with the Consolidated version of The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union open at Article 101 until they stop blocking Europeans from learning about each other and entertaining each other with popculture.
AppleTV: “Do you want to use your account on this (vacation home) AppleTV? Sign in!”
Me: Sure, and install my previously installed Discovery+ app so I can watch Snooker!
AppleTV: “I’ll switch to the German App Store and install that app for you!“
Me: “Cool! Open it.”
Discovery+ App: “You’re in Denmark, Discovery+ is Max here. Please install the Max app.”
App Store Germany: “There is no Max app here.”
@landley @jschauma @ryanc @0xabad1dea yeah, the exhaustion problem would've been shoved back with a #64bit or sufficiently delayed by a 40bit number.
Unless we also hate #NAT and expect every device to have a unique static #IP (which is a #privacy nightmare at best that "#PrivacyExtensions" barely fixed.)
I guess using a #128bit address space was inspired by #ZFS doing the same before, as the folks who designed both wanted to design a solution that clearly will outlive them (way harder than COBOL has outlived Grace Hopper)...
If I was @BNetzA I would've mandated #DualStack and banned #CGNAT (or at least the use of CGNAT in #RFC1918 address spaces) as well as #DualStackLite!
@shoppingtonz @alternativeto @torproject also every #Tunneling - regardless if #SSH or #VPN or whatever - will inevitably introduce #latency (unless you happen to be customer of a shitty #ISP with horrible #peering and thus can cut down on hops needed, which is AFAIK only a theoretical scenario)...
In fact I stopped using #HEnet #Tunnelbroker and #IPv6-#GIF-Tunneling because it created more issued than it solved on my #IPv4only #Internet connection…
Apple devices from China: Tough blockade by Apple Intelligence
Anyone who buys a Mac, iPhone & iPad in China cannot start Apple Intelligence on it, even with a suitable account. Apple apparently uses hard geoblocking.
@seyon @bossito Especialmente para a ficção, sim. Há um lobby intenso da indústria em todas as instituições da UE para bloquear qualquer tentativa de eliminar o #geoblocking.
@fennix TBH, I think those bs claims should be illegal.
The only valid claims I've seen is that it enables people to circumvent #geoblocking and potentially #InternetCensorship as well as #TrafficDiscrimination due to lack of #NetNeutrality, but those are always to be taken with a truckload of salt!
Most certsinly, there are no "#loglessVPN|s" and no #VPN provider will risk jailtime for any.client…
Movie, Music and Sports Industries Urge EU to Keep Geo-Blocking in Place
Ich schaue als #Auslandsdeutsche gerade die Wahlsendung der @tagesschau, aber ich muss mich via VPN ins Netz der Universität Mainz einloggen, um die Sendung online zu sehen. Zum Glück habe ich da noch Zugang! Ansonsten greift leider das #Geoblocking. Liebe #ARD, ich verstehe ja, dass Champions League nicht global frei ausgestrahlt wird, aber eine politische Sendung, die auch im Ausland lebende Deutsche betrifft, die sollte auf jeden Fall für alle zugänglich sein! Das sehe ich als Grundauftrag.
@kubikpixel @malwaretech @tomscott or to put it into perspective:
I worked at a telco, and whilst clients were above-average in terns of bahaviour, one does get a high single digit or low double-digit amount of LEA requests per day per x million customers.
Now imagine the average #VPN has similar utilization as a #CGNAT, so easily they'll have #LawfulInterception going on 24/7 because logless VPNs are a lie and besides circumventing #Geoblocking they don't do anything else...
TLDR: Just get @torproject @tails_live @tails / #Tails and good.
@wmd @miqokin #VPN|s are - for the most part and with the exception of circumventing #Geoblocking - a #Scam catering towards #TechIlliterates.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220112020000/https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1085614812581715968
The European Court of Auditors published an interesting report on #geoblocking in the #EU yesterday. The EU is supposed to have a common market, where goods, services and money flow freely – but this report shows that in the digital world, that often isn’t the case.
EU Court of Auditors: More action needed against unjustified geo-blocking
According to the EU auditors, the EU Commission and the member states are fighting half-heartedly against illegal blockades in cross-border e-commerce.
EU-Rechnungshof: Mehr Einsatz gegen ungerechtfertigtes Geoblocking nötig
Die EU-Kommission und die Mitgliedsstaaten kämpfen laut den EU-Rechnungsprüfer halbherzig gegen rechtswidrige Blockaden beim grenzüberschreitenden E-Commerce.
@jetsoft @hanse_mina #Funfact, i worked at several firms where #Geoblocking #Russia alongside "P.R." #China and #NorthKorea was part of their #ITsec protocol simply because otherwise they'd constantly get #DDoS'd or face hacking attempts.
