As expected, bureaucrats completely out of touch with current technology producing regulations that are out of touch with current technology
They know what they doing exactly. But they now have a reason to require age and ID checks to buy VPN. Then ban payments to VPNs that don't follow said regulation. You'll see.
They're already using the "online safety act" to silence people online.
They're super scared because a great many people have had enough. Crimes numbers, including rapes, are through the roof in the UK. And they want to silence anyone who wants to talk about criminality on the ultra rise.
The UK is on a very dark path. It's the country in the world with the most millionaires fleeing the country: mainstream media brainwash the people saying it's supposedly for tax reasons these millionaires are leaving.
But I live in a country where many millionaires and families have family offices and trusts and the tune is very different.
People are scared of what's going on. Both criminality and religious extremism are rising at a more than alarming rate. And not only is the government doing nothing about it, they're going after those denouncing the crimes.
People are now stabbed to death for their watch in London. A few days ago:
https://www.lbc.co.uk/crime/three-arrested-man-stabbed-death...
Leftists refuse to see it. They'll rationalize that that man was a capitalist oppressor for wearing a Rolex and that he provoked these people by wearing a $10 K watch. That he's the reason these killers were broke and forced to act evil. That they shouldn't get much jail time because now they'll surely be nice members of a high-trust society.
These people are precisely those who brought the Online Safety Act. But it's Orwellian and Orwellian talk: for what the Online Safety Act is really used for is to silence talk about crimes.
I'm in the EU: in a few years leftists shall probably have put a system in place where police shall come and knock on my door for my posts on HN.