Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole

• abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A burden on the population.

  The population being the people who run self hosted forums with a certain amount of British users. If you are one of those people, yeah, I’m sorry, I hate it too, but the vast majority of the UK don’t run forums with a large amount of British users. Fun fact, the End users (the people giving away their IDs) aren’t actually paying shit to anyone bar their IDs.

  Taxes do not all get directly paid to gavernment. Like sales taxes, service tips ect.

  VAT (what you call “sales tax”) does go to the Treasury. Like when you buy something, that 20% extra you paid goes off to the government via the Taxes the shop pays. That’s how VAT works.

  Services tips aren’t really a thing in the UK, especially not mandatory ones because food service workers in the UK aren’t exempt from the minimum wage.

  Are you even from the UK? Are you even in the UK? Because if you were from here, or even if you spent any amount of time here, you would’ve known the following things:

  1. The United Kingdom doesn’t have Federal Taxes because we’re not a Federal country. Again, we’re a Unitary Country with Devolution.
  2. We don’t use the term “Sales Tax”, we use the term VAT (Value Added Tax). That’s not some special technical term, VAT is common parlance.
  3. Service tips are not compulsory nor expected in any way, shape or form because food service workers in the UK are paid minimum wage with no exceptions. Most places here don’t even have the option to give a tip.

  Considering these things, I think you’re American. In that case, please, do us a favour, don’t act like you’re a fucking expert on this. I live in the UK, Scotland to be precise. Shit’s bad, The OSA can get tae fuck, but having Yanks who watched videos made by other yanks who don’t know shit about fuck on the ground lecture me about my own fucking country as if it’s just “America with funny accents” not only doesn’t help, it’s just spreading bullshit.

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  • Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    End users… … aren’t paying shit

    Users dont pay for the services. Okaay.

    Well done you know how sales tax works. Customers pay the business. Business pays the Government. My point.

    Swing and a miss on all points.

    FYI I used the common terms for your benefit, you sounded American.

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    • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well done you know how sales tax works. Customers pay the business. Business pays the Government. My point.

      …and where in this chain is YOTI et al paying the government?

      Frankly, you sound like the most odious little turd I have ever met on Lemmy.

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