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The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2025
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Most of the people who use VPNs use them for work as well. It would be an impossible task to craft a law in such a way that didn't ban VPNs for business use, but did for private use, other than to just come out and say that.