Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

• thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If only there was some way the government could have predicted this would happen and maybe not rushed a poorly thought out law in the first place!

  maybe then they would not have:

  • forced big tech companies to withdraw service to the uk
  • forced uk-based small forums and message boards to close
  • given free vpn providers tons more data to sell
  • reduced the overall cyber resilience of the country by forcing people to choose between giving photos of their passports to some weird online service or signing up for a free vpn which sells their data, may inject their own unregulated adverts etc
  • reduced uk based advertising effectiveness and thus investment and marketing spend
  • pissed everyone off while doing it, scoring yet another win for the far right

  absolute roasters the lot of them

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  • balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, hold your beer because Brazil is just passing a similar law at this moment. Expect other countries to follow.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Which is worse, the free VPNs or the UK government?

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  • stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean I don’t think I could pick right now 😂

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