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Mozilla warns UK: Breaking VPNs will not magically fix Britain's age-check mess (www.theregister.com)
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[–] brillotti@lemmy.world 39 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

These laws are not made to protect kids, but to amass power over the people.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Which is weird because I'm obligated to collect data from UK visitors, but not obligated to share it back with the UK government. This means UK government has essentially mandated that every country collects data on UK citizens. Something opposite of what EU and others do.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

Don’t worry, when they think they’ll need it you’ll get a polite but abrupt phone call

[–] Brimstone@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Just a coincidence world governments all became concerned about kids on the same day 😅

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

There isn't enough terrorism to justify things with that, so children it is.

[–] nodiratime@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

We don't have that many children either, looking at demographic developments.

But fascists will find a way through moral hijacking.

[–] MolochHorridus@piefed.social 17 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

I wouldn’t be surprised if banning VPNs was the real goal of the law.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 13 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The whole goal is to track every single person's activity on the internet and VPNs get in the way, so that too.

[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 5 points 3 hours ago

That is impossible without a China-level snooping apparatus. And even then it’s only partly possible. This is law made by dumb people.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 hours ago

Totalitarian regime speedrun