I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them
I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them
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Source? Cause mine (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50 aka the fucking law) doesn't say anything like that.
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Not who you’re responding to but techlinked called out that it’s illegal as well and showed the legislation text in their video. But if you’re not implementing the ID check in the first place then mentioning vpns doesn’t matter at all. I can’t even get your link to load.
Edit: timestamp 1:50 https://youtu.be/uGJHzPHOFXM
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Section 4.37 of Ofcom's Guidance on Highly Effective Age Assurance for Part 3 Services:
In addition, service providers should not publish content on their service that directs or encourages UK users to circumvent the age assurance process or the access controls, for example by providing information about or links to a virtual private network (VPN) which may be used by children to circumvent the relevant processes.
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Wait, what‽
Source?
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Source: Dude trust me. It's not there anywhere.
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I fear that calling them out so obviously it will just push them to target vpns next.
Blocking vpns is tricky in a western society because so many companies cannot function without them.
They wouldn't block the protocol, just the most common commercial providers. That's very easily doable.
Then Brits can use TOR 😎
If they block the publicly-accessible nodes too, they can use bridges.
Hell yeah.
It's very hard to block TOR, because it's an hydra. Block one method, multiple other methods take its place.
Many have tried that, IMO getting the word out about VPNs even to non-technical users is important because most people still don't know what that is. If they ever try to ban VPNs, even non-technical people will know how to use them and how to avoid the bans.
That’d quickly become a game of whac-a-mole.