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Mozilla warns UK: Breaking VPNs will not magically fix Britain's age-check mess
(www.theregister.com)
Anything but parenting properly.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2026
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These laws are not made to protect kids, but to amass power over the people.
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.
I wouldn’t be surprised if banning VPNs was the real goal of the law.
Totalitarian regime speedrun
Just a coincidence world governments all became concerned about kids on the same day 😅
There isn't enough terrorism to justify things with that, so children it is.