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VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in

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Post by maleldil »

krona wrote: post #333
ionwake wrote: post #253

Just a reminder “Brexit” happened just a few years ago. Suddenly no British man can be more than 3 months in another European country before being “banned”. You can’t even move to Switzerland and setup a company. Yes technically it’s possible but I was told my a Swiss accountant “just don’t bother trying unless you can get a European passport - if you can” This is from personal experience. As odd as it sounds Brexit…

Switzerland isn't in the EU either.

But it's in the Schengen Area, which is relevant here.

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Post by tmaly »

PaulKeeble wrote: post #195

A lot of people are going to be putting their ID details into all sorts of websites and giving this to all sorts of third parties because of this law. Its going to cause a huge increase in ID related theft and fraud in the coming years and its not even going to achieve its stated goal. Worse is its blocking sites it really shouldn't, wikipedia is fighting this in court at the moment because they want to censor it! Th…

There is definitely some questionable VPN providers.

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Post by gadders »

arrowsmith wrote: post #357
gadders wrote: post #327

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but only total GDP goes up. GDP per person goes down.

GDP per capita in the UK is still lower than it was in 2008. Gen Z have never experienced economic growth. They don't know what it means to get richer.

I remember when Gordon Brown promised "An end to boom and bust economics." I didn't that meant realise no more booms.

In the 90s in the UK, skilled working class tradesmen making huge amounts of money was such a stereotype that there was even a comedy character about it. I can't imagine seeing that happen again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadsamoney

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Post by albedoa »

octo888 wrote: post #378
alias_neo wrote: post #370

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> Having UK work experience and having talked to thousands of british folks over a decade, I find this hard to believe I only have to look as far as my own wallet to see the effects. I'm being taxed to the eyeballs while there is a glass ceiling preventing me taking any more pay home without a major jump which just isn't coming due to stupid tax rules keeping the working class from bumping into the middle class. I se…

> taxed to the eyeballs Emotional phrases aside, what is your total NI + income tax deduction percentage, and what percentage do you think you should be paying?

I just need to say that this is such a great question. Everyone is going to apply their own idea of "to the eyeballs" unless and until it is defined.

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Post by Pooge »

lucasRW wrote: post #267
gorgoiler wrote: post #63

The VPN trick potentially won’t last long. We’ve seen it go stale already in the world of intellectual property rights. For at least the last ten years Netflix et al have been well aware of which AS numbers / IP netblocks correspond to people sat at home in front of the TV, and which correspond to servers in a rack somewhere (including those hosting VPN endpoints.) One tweak to the rules and all of a sudden not only…

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For rules introduced by Conservatives?

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Post by billfor »

Aurornis wrote: post #330
winterismute wrote: post #306

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I always thought linking all the main things not working in the actual world to the alienation caused by too much digital consumption to be wrong/not really making sense. However, gradually, I am getting closer and closer to that conclusion... In your case, what brought you to the stance "Too much social media is what ails the whole world"? What do you think we could do to solve it?

If you go back in history you can find examples of people making the same claims about too much television. Prior to that, too much radio. Prior to that, too much newspaper consumption. A common thread is that when people complain about too much media consumption, they’re always talking about other people consuming other media. Few people believe their own consumption to be a societal level problem. Almost nobody bel…

All of that is broadcast / one direction. Social media is two-way. We've never had two-way mass communication. The rate of communication was an order of magnitude different also.

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Post by salawat »

p0w3n3d wrote: post #342

I must be honest with you, as far as I am pro net-neutrality, I can observe people using internet irresponsibly. As the internet stood up to allow sharing of science publications, now mostly shared is the pornographic type of content. When Tim Berners-Lee was thinking about people sending themselves a book he probably (we still may ask him) haven't predicted people sending boob/dick pics. As the content technical lev…

>When Tim Berners-Lee was thinking about people sending themselves a book he probably (we still may ask him) haven't predicted people sending boob/dick pics.

You are asking tech to solve people problems. That is a recipe for disaster.

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Post by ericmcer »

ap99 wrote: post #240
mijoharas wrote: post #200

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> but suggesting the NHS isn't perfect is against the religion here I don't know anyone that doesn't complain about the state of the NHS. The only time I've heard anyone defending it would be when compared to countries without national healthcare (e.g. America).

I'm an American living in London and I'd gladly return to the US just for the healthcare. Granted I'm in tech so that's steady employment with benefits, but there you go.

I haven't lived in another country, but I have never had an issue with healthcare in the USA. It does seem like you can step on a landmine if you are negligent, but I have employer paid healthcare now and it works great. When I was low income (during my early 20s) medicaid would legitimately hound me to keep me on it. I actually had an issue because they kept enrolling me after I got I job that no longer required them.

I imagine medicaid funding is directly tied to the enrollment count so they are very aggressive about getting people on it. Granted it was trash insurance and most specialists wouldn't take it, but it covered basic care fully.

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Post by Veen »

pjc50 wrote: post #388
nindalf wrote: post #120

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Incredible that you’ve managed to bring this conversation to immigration. In fact, it sounds like you’re saying the root cause of this crappy policy is somehow immigrants. Far fetched and not cool.

Everyone always wants to bring it back to immigration, because they've seen US ICE snatch squads and internment camps and decide that they want some of that here.

It's very difficult to build a growing economy when you have mass unskilled immigration combined with free healthcare and a generous welfare system.
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