What they can likely do is the same as with porn sites: require law-abiding, trusted and well-known VPN providers to do age verification, thus pushing people to more obscure and risky providers who don’t care about the law instead.
Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Good luck preventing someone from getting a vps in the another country and doing their own tunnel. It can be done in such a way is undetectable at the protocol level. Coming up next age verification for ssh.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 7 months ago
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
to more obscure and risky providers who don’t care about the law instead
There’s no need to go that far, there will still be plenty of well-known and trustworthy providers who care about the law but simply operate outside of UK jurisdiction.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In that case they have to geoblock UK to be out of UK jurisdiction. Which a lot of these providers are already doing.
shalafi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s how my OpenVPN server works, Digital Ocean droplet overseas.