Comment on Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
pogmommy@lemmy.ml 8 months agoNot feasibly, no. If a centralized platform like bluesky refuses to abide by the laws in a given country, their platform can be made inaccessible in that country. Trying to do that to countless activitypub-compliant servers wouldn’t be practical since you van just hop to another server.
This is the UK we’re talking about, absolutely no one in government knows how to block anything. Seriously every time they block something I just use one of those crappy free VPN plugins and get around it. Basically I’m only looking for magnet links anyway.
You don’t even need to keep the VPN on to torrent the file. It’s so stupid.
I have seen some people in UK (on reddit) complaining about ISP sending notices when torrenting w/o a VPN.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Do you think they won’t try? I mean both the Tory and previous Labour admins tried to ban encryption.