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    1. Remarkable_Battle614 on

      >Katie Freeman-Tayler, of children’s safety group Internet Matters, said on Thursday that availability of free and low cost VPN services to children, and their potential use of them, was „concerning“.

      And so it begins…

    2. Varanae on

      Hilarious that the whole vibe of the article is that VPNs are bad and that websites should be discouraging their use

    4. Sonchay on

      The government should have started their own VPN company or set out a special tax on them since they knew what the effect would be. Coulda raised a ton of cash!

    5. _Hello_Hi_Hey_ on

      You dont even need VPN, as they are not blocking sites in other languages, so you just need to turn on translate page. They also didn’t block all xxx sites as there are just too many. They also didn’t block any picture based porn, they just block the main video sites. Apparently someone also passed the age vertification with face of Death Stranding character on computer screen. The whole thing is so badly planned and full of loopholes.

    6. ValuableMajor4815 on

      >“Many of these free VPNs are riddled with issues,“ said Daniel Card, a cyber-security expert with the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS).

      >“Some act as traffic brokers for data harvesting firms, others are so poorly built they expose users to attacks.“

      >He told the BBC despite posing a range of potential privacy risks, such apps „end up in the hands of kids trying to watch age-restricted content“, or adults „trying to get round blocks“.

      Oh, so totally not like the US based verification platforms everyone is being told to blindly trust?

    8. douggieball1312 on

      If even innocuous sites like Wikipedia end up being blocked, I’ll be migrating every one of my devices over to a foreign IP address and staying there for good. If they’re going to butcher the internet in this country anyway, I’d rather they just pulled out the plug rather than this stupid death by a thousand cuts method.

    9. phangtom on

      How about we the world just ban Katie Freeman-Taylor’s family and everyone in the Internet Matters group from the internet?

      Honestly we should start writing to all their partners to explain why they’re supporting a group that is calling for an authoritarian government. 

    10. pandaman777x on

      This hamfisted age verification thing could have been done better… why not just do it at an ISP level where by default you can’t access all these websites, and the account owner has to toggle it on?

      Making us send a 3D image of our peckers to some random American company just so we can look at some boobs online seems overkill

    11. GreemBeam on

      This act has nothing to do with protecting children, and everything to do with farming data to train AI models how to detect identification documents.

      And possibly also to add data about what people rub one out to into their datasets they use to profile us all

    12. GiftedGeordie on

      At what point do we just think of ourselves as living in a surveillance state? I really feel like freedom and democracy is dying in the UK and I put the blame on Keir Starmer and Labour for either turning the UK into an authoritarian regime or laying the ground work for someone else to turn it into an authoritarian regime.

      This is the most terrified that I’ve ever been to live in this country.

    13. Organic_Armadillo_10 on

      I’m travelling an accidentally left my vpn set to the UK (for getting some series not available where I was). Went on an adult site and got the popup basically saying I’d need to make an account. I didn’t actually read it – I just immediately switched my country on the VPN and it worked again just fine…

      The whole age verification thing is pointless. There will be ways around it. Even if the vpns get blocked they’ll work again after a day or two as they work just as quick to fix access (much like torrent sites etc…).

      Nobody is going to put personal information to access adult content.

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