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The UK government doth protest too much about protecting the kids. It’s obvious that this whole thing is just an attempt to increase the surveillance of the UK population.

Labour was supposed to destroy the Tories, not join them!

Freedom from EU regulation. 😋

I'm looking forward to the next UK election where the headline will be: Labour has lost the election in a landslide that left them with dozens of votes total

Every single person who didn't think this would affect them who watches porn in any capacity is very likely highly pissed off and will continue to be for as long as this draconian bullshit is enabled.

You cant ban vpns, its easy for tech people to set up a vpn server on any server on the internet and connect to it. Wireguard for example, super simple.

this is obviously such a dumpster fire that I can't help but wonder, "When will they realize how dumb this is and back out of it?"

then i remember that Brexit happened

fuckin stubbornness is a national identity for you blokes innit

Oh, that would be hilarious to watch.

People are "at risk"... of what? What a terrible article to not even clarify what the risk is. Because it sounds to me like the government is who put those people at risk by making them go look for solutions to a draconian policy.

Tfw Big Brother is charmless potato named Keir Starmer.

Reddit already tried to block VPN users.

Expect the corpos to bend the knee.

after reports in Guido Fawkes suggested it was possible.

That's the only source? A far-right conspiracy website?

for those in the UK and/or Other places in Europe just know it's so painfully easy to either set up your own VPN or just use something like Mullvad.

I set up my own VPN this morning for the first time on my server and it took less than 10minutes. plenty of guides online on how to do it.

So now it's not just TERF island but also nazi island.

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

Banning VPNs is quite a serious move.

It's not so easy to ban VPNs. They need to setup DPI everywhere. And then people will start using DPI circumvention software.