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UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill (www.birminghammail.co.uk)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Prominent backbench MP Sarah Champion launched a campaign against VPNs previously, saying: “My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.

"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.” And the Labour Party said there were “gaps” in the bill that needed to be amended.

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[–] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

What would be defined as a VPN and even then there are other options to get access to content as if you where in a different country or ways to bypass the age restriction. A lot of companies and governments also use VPN's to get people to work on their servers, so how would the UK function.

It always baffles me that they try shit like that.

Edit: heck proper sex education is a way better solution to reduce unhealthy sex habits

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Edit: heck proper sex education is a way better solution to reduce unhealthy sex habits

It's not about sex, or protecting the children.
It's about control.

[–] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 points 4 days ago

Maybe it and maybe it isn't, but kicking against it trying to change won't help because there is a certain amount of the population who believes that it isn't for control, but it is actually for sex or protecting the children or what not.

If you want to get those people over to change their behaviour, you want to work on compromises or in this case you want to deflect them into fixing something else.

Trust me, I have a lot of right and even some mildly right people around me and with going hard against them you will just confirm their bias.