Re:VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
by giantg2 on Monday July 28, 2025 @09:36AM
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"Magna Carta in the 1200s against the right of kings"
Seems like the pendulum has swung back now, doesn't it? Increasing authority/rights of the government instead of a king.
Re:VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
by tim333 on Monday July 28, 2025 @09:53AM
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~80% in favour of this stuff. Democracy for you.
Re:VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
by NoMoreNicksLeft on Monday July 28, 2025 @10:10AM
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If opposing a bill could cause you to be put on a watchlist, it's pretty easy to get a "large majority" favoring it.
Re:VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
by tim333 on Monday July 28, 2025 @10:17AM
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It's not at all like that.
It's more the protect kids from sites 'that carry pornography as well as other “harmful” material that relates to self-harm, eating disorders or suicide.'
I guess other counties are like screw the kids, I'm terrified of being IDd in case my government does bad things?
Re:VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
by giantg2 on Monday July 28, 2025 @12:26PM
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Stop strawmanning. Other countries care about kids and use normal parental supervision and controls without being authoritarian.
Re:VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
by commandlinefan on Monday July 28, 2025 @04:38PM
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Which 80% is that? The ones now using VPNs to get around it?
We have a history of trying banning bad stuff. Magna Carta in the 1200s against the right of kings, slavery abolition in the 1800s, now porn being pushed to kids.
I don't think child grooming or hate is particularly bad here but we tend to try to stop that kind of thing. We also had the first modern police force in 1829 and other innovations which have caught on in some other countries.
Some of the US alt right media pushes broken Britain stories because we have some muslim immigrants or something. The majority of the public support the bill https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-poll-finds-7-in-10-ad... I wonder if it's more the US is afraid of the their government that if they say they are promoting online saftey they are really going 1984 on the populace? Here people tend to assume they are in fact promoting what it says on the tin.