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UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole (gizmodo.com)
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[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 67 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Shithole country doing shithole things. The UK is acting like a red state, and their standard of living is dropping accordingly.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Uk is closer to US in ideology than to europe post-brexit. also russel vought is behind all the porn bans of steam recently too, i would imagine he probably is too on this.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

UK was also closer to US ideology pre Brexit.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Republicans with nationalized health care and a monarchy.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Even pre-brexit. The UK was never part of the EU, culturally speaking

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd argue that causation may be the other way around.