Why is the UK such a hell hole all the sudden? I’ve never had such a terrible opinion of the place until now with encryption and authoritarian fuckwitism against the last bastion of real democracy on the internet.
UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole
Submitted 3 hours ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world
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j4k3@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
paraphrand@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
You should watch some Adam Curtis documentaries to get perspective on the UK.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 hours ago
All of a sudden?
This is the country where 1984 was written, where they have more cameras than anywhere else, this sort of social surveillance and quiet, polite fascism is normal for the UK.
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
They over there looking at America being the absolute fuck up it is and are jealous.
fluxion@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
To be fair, they were the OGs of a prosperous stable country spontaneously shooting themselves in the head because someone convinced them they could be doing SOOO much better aaaannd it’s gone…
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Turns out Liberals are Fascists.
j4k3@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Uhh no… Idiots are fascists. Some idiots may call themselves liberal but that doesn’t make it so. Liberals by definition cannot be fascist. The idiots are those that let fascists parade as anything but.
warm@kbin.earth 2 hours ago
Because they have to protect the children!! Oh why won't anyone think of the children?!
anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Or the poor adults who can’t be bothered to parent their own spawn.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
You can just mail cash to mullvad and include a code that links it to your account.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 hours ago
Seeing this from the US scares me. I already have an elaborate system for tunneling my traffic out of the country without it appearing I’m doing so from my end devices.
But seeing this happening in the UK and knowing there’s a chance of it happening here, I really feel the need to get into China-style circumvention with shadowsocks and what have you, and I need to figure this out sooner rather than later.
IllNess@infosec.pub 31 minutes ago
21 states have laws for age verification on porn sites. 4 more states are in the process of passing laws for age verification. That’s nearly half the states…
nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
This is how you get under-18s to use [Tor browser](www.torproject.org/download/$
commander@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I’m certain a lot of politicians and veterans are bitter over the lack of universal adoration they get in their own countries. Politicians certainly annoyed with how easy it is for victims of war and veterans against war speaking out against enlistment. Politicians and the rich want their populaces to be patriots whereas the Internet makes people jaded when learning their countries history and present in detail.
I’m certain that’s the real reason internet censorship picked up steam. The Internet has poisoned the well for so many countries when trying to build out some unified national message of righteous action. Can’t like how negative the public reacts to bills described as for child safety. Internet makes it real easy to call it another manipulative cry of wolf. It’s got to be the #1 marketing trick for the rich and powerful. #2 being those foreigners are evil. But shit now people see people across the world are mostly just getting by not even participating in politics or don’t even have any voting power and are just caught in the crossfires of the power hungry
Today there are no heros from the invasions across Asia west to east. In recent times you don’t get a marketing bump for fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Libya, wherever. That’s problematic for patriotism and public support for future war fighting. Every government leader now has a mixed legacy while alive that makes their memory mute in history compared to WW2 and earlier leaders who committed just as much or likely far worse terrors but enjoyed widespread domestic support while in power and adoration in retirement.
National anthems before sporting events are tacky whereas just like 15 years ago damn near everyone bought into those. I swear one day there will monitoring software and crackdowns on hitting the mute button during national anthems and commercials
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
Damn, what is going on there? This is scary even for 18+ users.
IllNess@infosec.pub 30 minutes ago
It’s scarier. They will track everything you are doing not and not have to guess what device you are using behind a shared IP address.
Brewchin@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Doubling down on the batshit. Everyone knew VPNs were going to be the low effort workaround to this authoritarian batshittery.
I get what the (well meaning, I think) people lobbying for this are trying to achieve, but everything from the lobbying to legislation to enforcement seems to be happening in the worst way imaginable. Almost like it’s an intentional “You want to see how badly can we do this? Hold my drink! YOLO!!”
For me, the tell was UK PLC leaving it up to the sites themselves to decide who/how the verification would be done. Classic bad management “I don’t understand the slightest thing about any of this, but HOW HARD COULD IT BE?!” response. It’s like the “series of tubes” stupidity all over again.
dan@upvote.au 36 minutes ago
Only commercial VPNs? So HTTP proxying, Tor, SSH tunneling, SOCKS tunneling, running your own VPN node, etc are all allowed?