Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations

Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by ozlikethewizard on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @08:30AM (#44722490)

I hate the Online Safety Act as much as the next person, but:

- Labour have made no plans to ban VPNs.

- One MP wanted to add a clause for a government review into the impact of VPNs on the bill after 6 months, with no direction on what that would mean.

- I have no idea if this clause actually got added, but it'd make sense. If you're going to introduce a stupid law you should at least plan to review if the stupid law is having any impact.

- GB news is bottom of the barrel propaganda.

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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by ekianjo on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @08:41AM (#44722623)

> clause for a government review into the impact of VPNs on the bill after 6 months

thats government speak for deciding to do something about the VPN problem. because there is no way a commission will not find a good reason to ban VPNs when you reach that point, because you could argue they help avoid UK restrictions.

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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by anigbrowl on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @02:30PM (#44726791)

That's paranoia speak. You can express that anxiety without falsely stating it as fact.

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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by ekianjo on Saturday August 02, 2025 @04:47AM (#44765835)

thats not paranoia when you have seen it happening before your very eyes 100 times before.

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