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UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill (www.birminghammail.co.uk)
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Prominent backbench MP Sarah Champion launched a campaign against VPNs previously, saying: “My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.

"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.” And the Labour Party said there were “gaps” in the bill that needed to be amended.

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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 149 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This ends with just another war on encryption.

When encryption is legal, they can't know what is going on between two points. They going to make is so we can only have encryption to nodes they trust?

It is dangerously technologically illiterate to wage war on encryption.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Jokes on you, e2e encryption is already banned in some cases in the uk afaik. Hence apple dropping some cloud services

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago

Easy enough to do when it's mega corps. They don't really care about anything but money. If everyone had self hosted services with e2e, be far harder. Encryption is everywhere now.

So they will go after the end points. Which again, is a battle they can't win. All very Cory Doctorow's "Unauthorized Bread".

If you care about this stuff:

UK: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/make-one-donation US: https://www.eff.org/pages/donate-eff EU: https://my.fsfe.org/donate

There will be others too, those are just in my head's cache.

Some how we need to get governments to listen to us serfs instead mega corps and authoritarian police/spooks.

The world they want is not only terrible for digital and political freedom, but competition, thus functioning markets. It's terrible for making developers and makers instead of dumb consumers, which in turn, is terrible for technology and progress.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

If I was black hatter I would be looking at these people like they just dropped a golden goose.