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Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told (www.bbc.com)
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[โ€“] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 42 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's just all these children with their bank accounts paying for their VPN subscriptions doing it all... Do they think we're that stupid? Don't answer that. ๐Ÿ˜”

[โ€“] stsquad@lemmy.ml 13 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It's the free VPNs that are the problem. They are privacy nightmares.

[โ€“] thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If only there was some way the government could have predicted this would happen and maybe not rushed a poorly thought out law in the first place!

maybe then they would not have:

  • forced big tech companies to withdraw service to the uk
  • forced uk-based small forums and message boards to close
  • given free vpn providers tons more data to sell
  • reduced the overall cyber resilience of the country by forcing people to choose between giving photos of their passports to some weird online service or signing up for a free vpn which sells their data, may inject their own unregulated adverts etc
  • reduced uk based advertising effectiveness and thus investment and marketing spend
  • pissed everyone off while doing it, scoring yet another win for the far right

absolute roasters the lot of them

[โ€“] balder1991@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Well, hold your beer because Brazil is just passing a similar law at this moment. Expect other countries to follow.

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Which is worse, the free VPNs or the UK government?

[โ€“] stsquad@lemmy.ml 6 points 20 hours ago

I mean I don't think I could pick right now ๐Ÿ˜‚