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"We will force you to do what we want", democracy in action
Isn't this currently what Russia is trying to do with their internet?
It's something russia has been doing for a decade and got pretty good at.
A long term blanket vpn ban is not compatible with a modern digital infrastructure, but with certain protocols (openvpn, wireguard) they can detect their usage and filter them out when necessary.
It does require a lot of expensive DPI (deep packet inspection) hardware I'm not sure UK has, so building a Great Firewall of Britain (Hadrian's Firewall?) will take some time.
"Safety" meanwhile these same mp's can't budget can't run critical public services like bloody hospitals.
But don't worry, your thoughts and activity are policed.
Democratic failure to prioritise and run a country at its finest on display for the world to see. The waste is astounding.
Why not just ban all human rights while you're at it?
Little by little!
Can't do it all at once or the ~~peasants~~ populace might catch on!
They can come and pry TOR from my cold dead hands lmfao
this law can eat shit. i ain't gonna dox myself and feed my personal info to companies. maybe they should take this as a hint that most people care about their privacy
if you don't want kids seeing NSFW stuff be an actual parent and don't raise your kids on the internet??
If this comes to anything I'm moving to somewhere in the EU and pursuing citizenship there. This is clearly not about protecting the children anymore (not that it ever was).
EU is about to do the exact same thing. Norway is the place to be. That's where I went - at least according to my ip address.
apparently having a functioning brain isn't a requirement of being an mp
but of course we knew that when she did this in 2019:
On 16 July 2019, Champion stated: "If my party comes out as a remain party rather than trying to find a deal or >rather than trying to exit, I can't support that, it goes against democracy". She said she would rather support a "no-deal Brexit" than remain in the EU, as she believed Labour had to deliver the result of the 2016 referendum.
If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems
Your law is the difficult problem you daft cunt
Show me a ban that didn’t came with 10x problems. People have their needs even the filthy ones. Especially the filthy ones. Hence will find a way to fulfill it. If there’s no legal way to do so the demand will create an alternative market for it to match the demand…more trouble on the way if that’s the lane the UK choose
Not even China can ban VPN entirely, because businesses use it as a security measure.
But they can't seem to muster up the "political" will to tax the rich
Labour are not governing for the people, and they are not the Labour party anymore.
The UK is the testing grounds. After they figure it out, they’ll be rolling it out everywhere else.
This online safety bill is dishonest. This has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with money.
And there's the other shoe dropping with VPNs now. Didn't even take them an extra fucking year
"Hey! Stop using well known workarounds to my idiot demands! Surely this is brand new technology that no one could have known about!"
Bye bye UK economy. How do you expect businesses to work without VPNs?
How is this even feasible? People need them for work, business, school etc. The UK is going nuts with the attempts to regulate the internet.
"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.”
When I was a kid, Reddit and general public Internet access weren't things, but I sure managed to get my hands on pornography. I'm pretty confident that even entirely killing Internet access isn't going to stop kids who want to get ahold of porn from getting ahold of it.
Ah, fascism on the rise.
