Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I fucking hate the UK, so much.
The MPs and Peers only fucking learnt about VPNs when this bullshit bill was being passed. They’re so fucking clueless about the whole thing. They don’t understand what a VPN exactly is and what it does and the fact their own government (hopefully) uses them, as do Banks (for security), Companies, and indeed, how it works.
This will lead to more bullshit.
Wrote a email to my MP for this exact reason.
The OSA needs repealing. All it’s doing is either teaching people to follow poor digital hygiene practices, or forcing people to follow more risky methods of bypassing the OSA controls.
Whole guise of child safety is laughable when they’ve made zero attempts to educate everyone (not just kids) on being safe online.
aaanddd did they respond?
Of course not. Implies they do their jobs properly.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They are not the first country to ban vpns, those bans usually target 95% of individuals who are bad at tech not encrypted communications as a whole. Though I can see Britain ignoring that experience and just shooting itself in the face.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
As is tradition.