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UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
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Just needs a Union Jack on his hat and the wrapping paper and "UK" in place of "US" on the box.
Maybe if they see significant issues with the populace adhereing to this law they should identify the solution of revoking the unpopular law.
It's the populace that is wrong, not the lawmakers /s
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"We will force you to do what we want", democracy in action
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.
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Labour was supposed to destroy the Tories, not join them!
This kinda proves that it was never about the children. How many children have know how and the means to buy a VPN subscription?
A lot more than you know, I knew how to use it since middle school.
And if they don't know they will use Reddit to find out how to access the sites:
https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/teenagers/comments/tv70x0/do_yall_know_a_good_vpn/?
Don't underestimate kids.
Still an important part. Free VPNs that spy on you are a thing, but work
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And there's the other shoe dropping with VPNs now. Didn't even take them an extra fucking year
Didn't even take a week.
Just adopt a CCP style social credit system already. Why all of this pussyfooting around being a totalitarian, censorship focused, surveillance state? Just do it. Give the good people of UK a solid reason to be a little bit more French again.
There has been a widespread misconception that China operates a nationwide and unitary social credit "score" based on individuals' behavior, leading to punishments if the score is too low. Media reports in the West have sometimes exaggerated or inaccurately described this concept.[4][5][6] In 2019, the central government voiced dissatisfaction with pilot cities experimenting with social credit scores. It issued guidelines clarifying that citizens could not be punished for having low scores and that punishments should only be limited to legally defined crimes and civil infractions. As a result, pilot cities either discontinued their point-based systems or restricted them to voluntary participation with no major consequences for having low scores.
This is, if true and accurate, delightful news! And has improved an otherwise troublesome day.
What about all the people blocked from air travel due to low Social Credit? Are you saying that never happened?
People can be banned from airlines but they get banned for the same reasons they do in the US, like getting drunk on the plane and punching someone. Or like how the US bans people who owe child support from getting a passport, judges in China are allowed to ban people with unpaid child support or big enough unpaid fines from state owned airlines until they pay.
So now it's not just TERF island but also nazi island.
As a Brit I'm sorry for how embarrassing our country's authorities are becoming
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Banning VPNs is quite a serious move.
Just to fast-forward this dumb cat-and-mouse thing, the next step is people go back to torrenting their porn and deeper down the rabbit hole of garbage "free" websites skirting the rules.
As always, the UK is useful on the international stage because sometimes you need to be able to point at some idiot trying dumb stuff to explain to people why dumb stuff is dumb.
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There are ways around this even if they do ban vpn. Its a hopeless battle being fought by the ignorant.
I mean anyone can rent a server in Europe and install OpenVPN themselves. Hell, it doesn't even need to open OpenVPN, Wireguard works just as well and is basically undetectable.
Eat shit, UK government, for real. Idiots think that by speaking the same language as US fascists they can have similarly dumb ideas.
wireguard is not undetectable, even wireshark has a simple way to identify it, but there are more accurate ways
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I’d email my MP to ask why this Labour Government is using the BBC to promote Reform talking points and implementing brain dead Reform policies, but I don’t expect anything other than the blandest party line response.
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Labour are not governing for the people, and they are not the Labour party anymore.
