Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

• abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  and yet they’re doing a fucking terrible job at it (source, I’m using a VPN, something people in the Lords didn’t even know was a thing until it was too late). It would be funny if it wasn’t my reality.

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  • plyth@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The control isn’t complete until VPNs are controlled. Everybody evading the ban will help to make the case that VPNs have to be regulated, too.

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    • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s already happening, alas, but I suspect things will get very quiet when people realise something like this would affect the bottom line negatively. Look at what happened (twice) with encryption.

      1. Government said they wanna ban encryption.
      2. Starts planning the legislation.
      3. Someone (a civil servant who’s job it is to point out the fucking obvious) points out that Banking and Commerce requires Encryption to function and banning Encryption would crash the Economy.
      4. Plans are quietly dropped.

      How it will likely go with VPNs.

      1. Government says they wanna restrict VPNs.
      2. Government Starts planning legistlation (we are here).
      3. Someone points out that Banking, Tech Security, The Military, The Foreign Office and others rely on VPNs to function and getting rid of them will fuck the economy and put national security at risk and risk negatively affecting their pay masters corporate donors.
      4. Plans are quietly dropped.

      One of the main purposes of the OSA is to make money for YOTI and the Data brokers, because you and I both know these are the main corporate sponsors, and the MPs and Lords who passed it likely have investments in said companies. Hoovering up IDs and linking them to web activity doesn’t just help the government fuck us, it makes money for MPs, Lords, and their Friends. But here’s the thing: It’ll bite not just US, but them in the arse. So here’s what’s (hopefully) going to happen.

      1. OSA is installed.
      2. Someone important enters their info into a fake age check/Someone important gets age verified for something and the service gets hacked.
      3. The hack gets made public and a lot of important people get burnt.
      4. The Bill gets quietly modified or abolished.

      British Politicians are greedy, self serving authoritarian cunts, but they are also remarkably dim. Like sometimes impressively so. Look up this passage in Hansard to see what I mean. It might cause you to have a fucking crisis.

      But yes, they do like control, problem is they don’t know what they wish for,

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      • plyth@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Do you think those debates are for real and not a show that ends with whatever has been decided elsewhere?

        The houses don’t need to know because they don’t do the planning.

        Since the EU does the same thing at the same time, after it was not a problem for years, the origin for these laws must lie elsewhere.

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  • dude@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You know you can just switch to some small instance that’s not blocked and you’re gonna be good? Even in China the small Lemmy instances work while the big ones are obviously blocked

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    • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah sure, until they find a way to block that too.

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      • dude@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I doubt UK could surpass China and Russia in terms of internet censorship any time soon

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