Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Are they gonna ban torrents next? Https? You can ssh to a remote server and wget files all day long, or setup vnc and have a vpn like experience.
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe not if you are thirteen years old…
oatscoop@midwest.social 1 day ago
It’s funny, because that’s exactly what I did around the age of 13 to bypass my school’s firewall. I had everything on a USB drive, including Ghostzilla and PuTTY so I could browse through an SSH SOCKS tunnel. Mind you, my home computer was the SSH server – but these days it wouldn’t be hard to get a VPS in a less restrictive country:
“Hey [parent], can I borrow your credit card to set up a web server so my friends and I can play [game] together?”
It takes one kid in a group to set something like this up.
gedhrel@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The neighbours’ seven-year-old suggested using a VPN to get around ages checks. I don’t know if he knows what one is, but he’s definitely seen adverts for them.