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

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Post by johnisgood »

rubyAce wrote: post #132
makingstuffs wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a word, division. The UK is so divided that people are too busy pointing the finger at each other to realise the root cause of the deterioration of our quality of life is entirely generations of mismanagement of the public purse. Instead of questioning how MPs are entitled to a pay rise while your average person gets made redundant, people are questioning why people fleeing persecution should ‘be paid for with my…

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What about the "obviously not a kid" types? Please tell me you can at the very least estimate.

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Post by password54321 »

12ian34 wrote: post #169
password54321 wrote: post #110

Destroy cultural integrity, national identity, create a low-trust society, become more authoritarian to manage low-trust society, import more immigrants at an exponential rate while house costs rise along with unemployment. The list keeps going. This is why far-right is surging on the polls. The country has completely lost all sense.

UK needs immigrants to increase stagnating productivity. this has been the case for decades and it's why no government has done, or will do anything serious to curb it.

This is the trojan horse as nothing has improved.

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Post by flumpcakes »

Pooge wrote: post #354
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…

> now mostly shared is the pornographic type of content What is your source? I believe you are incredibly biased. Netflix is one of the biggest user of bandwidth worldwide, and if we're talking about the percentage of "pornographic" IP packets, I think it's even less than the former. > and I really wonder how could I filter the content that goes to them Parental control on device and DNS-level blocker (think AdGuard,…

I must admit the amount of pornography in different forms is now apparently everywhere on social media. Including social media I thought was "safe":

I see videos that I think are overtly sexual in nature on YouTube, even if the video is something supposedly "innocent". If you click through to their profiles there is an inevitable link to 18+ content most of the time. I am subscribed to only tech/film/gaming channels on youtube and this content is now always put into my feed. I probably have cursed myself by checking these people's profiles after the fact.

You are right though that by bandwidth, streaming services including Netflix make up the majority of data over the Internet and it is not pornographic/dangerous for children at all.

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Post by pjc50 »

Veen wrote: post #420
pjc50 wrote: post #388

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Immigrants can't claim welfare, beyond the tiny asylum seeker payment, and the healthcare system is dependent on immigration for staff.

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Post by [deleted] »

gorgoiler wrote: post #448
pjc50 wrote: post #387

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, wikipedia?

Yes... and for clarity, perhaps I should have instead said for the implementation of this law to actually make any moral sense, which is like saying for this chocolate tea pot to be functional on a daily basis, one would have to provision a way of shutting down sites which refuse to participate in the age-verification laws of the UK.

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Post by ed_elliott_asc »

ericmcer wrote: post #419
ap99 wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 the…

This isn’t the story we generally hear - what we hear about us healthcare is that you need a well paid job and even then medicines are ridiculously expensive - like thousands of dollars a month for something that is tens of pounds in the uk.

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Post by data-ottawa »

tapoxi wrote: post #15

I really don't understand why it wasn't just a requirement for Apple and Google to include a client side filter. Parent sets up the phone and it's enabled by default. Much simpler option for everyone involved.

Adding a browser header field would be sufficient, could be easily integrated into the OS and browser, and would let developers handle this issue in a few hours worth of effort.

ID verification is such an invasive measure and prone to the exact same failures as the simplest solutions.

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Post by crossroadsguy »

Xiol32 wrote: post #404
crossroadsguy wrote: post #199

Since it's about VPNs - what are good VPNs for someone looking for safety/privacy but not anonymity or even IP hiding? Not even for streaming. But for general "safety while on the Internet" when the devices (Mac, iPhone) are mostly on public or not-so-secure WiFi (at the residence or on the go). Plan is to keep it always ON or almost always ON. Not necessarily for the UK. (Other than Mullvad)

Can I ask - why not Mullvad?

Connectivity and IP blockage (I assumed) issues last time I tried it.

But the main reason is — it’s the default recommendation on HN. So I would prefer to know what else good there that people are using. Because it would be really sad if it’s the only one. I kind of refuse to believe that.

That’s all.

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Post by data-ottawa »

blitzar wrote: post #89
tapoxi wrote: post #15

I really don't understand why it wasn't just a requirement for Apple and Google to include a client side filter. Parent sets up the phone and it's enabled by default. Much simpler option for everyone involved.

> it wasn't just a requirement for Apple and Google to include a client side filter I am old enough to remember when Apple proposed client side filtering and everyone absolutely lost their shit.

That was client side content scanning, unless there’s another incident you’re referring to.
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