UK regulators are just hearing another excuse for a loicense.

And also VPNs are tools to open doors in the minefield of legislations that they need to create to improve the incoming of some business, not of the people that voted for them.

The UK gov needs to sod off with all this 1984 BS

UK is not and has never been a free society, UK elites have an authoritarian streak.

Historically they were fairly smart at doing it subtly but the mask slipped during Covid and they never really put it back on.

Also - outside the HN bubble this stuff isn’t even unpopular. Normies supported covid lockdowns and they don’t want their kids watching porn either.

The people yearn to be ruled and nannied

> VPNs are essential privacy tools

Does Mozilla not understand that this is the exact reason why the UK wants to forbid them?

1984 was meant to be a warning, not the UK’s digital infrastructure roadmap

While their arguments are sound, Perhaps Mozilla should disclose in this document that they are also a VPN reseller.