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Speak for yourself please.
No one can dictate who can watch something or not.
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#13As a remark, not a criticism, such a deliberate promotion is probably illegal in the UK market, > "But Ofcom says platforms required to introduce "highly effective" methods to check user age must not host, share or permit content that encourages use of VPNs to get around age checks. The government has also told the BBC it would be illegal for platforms to do so." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o
Can VPN/DNS providers independently market their services, if content providers cannot advertise VPN providers?
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What would the regime do without people like you?
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Porn is just the excuse used to put more systems of control and oppression in place, as can be seen by US and UK conservatives attempting to get the mere existence of trans and LGBT people classified as 'obscene' and thus any mentions of them banned under the same laws.
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#16amazing... we need more of this on the dns level
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#17I am a user of nextdns and okay, this is really neato team! I find this really interesting. If I may ask, what are the dns tricks, is there a blog post about what you added, I am sooo curious about what sorcery is nextdns using. Edit: I searched on ddg and there was a ghacks.net link and a alternativeto.net article and sadly ghacks was taking a long time to load and I just read the alternativeto.net article and it wa…
I've been using Getflix for years to have my location spoofed to another country. It is a pay product though. I've used it on Amazon and mainly use it for BBC Iplayer. I couldnt ever get netflix to play nice using it or a vpn, so for it I just tunnel to my traffic to a residential address i have in mexico
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#18As a remark, not a criticism, such a deliberate promotion is probably illegal in the UK market, > "But Ofcom says platforms required to introduce "highly effective" methods to check user age must not host, share or permit content that encourages use of VPNs to get around age checks. The government has also told the BBC it would be illegal for platforms to do so." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o
Can VPN/DNS providers independently market their services, if content providers cannot advertise VPN providers?
> "content that encourages use of VPNs to get around age checks"
I think "...to get around age checks" is controlling. It isn't illegal to promote VPN's in that country; it's illegal to promote their usefulness in circumventing other laws.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can VPN/DNS providers independently market their services, if content providers cannot advertise VPN providers?
> "content that encourages use of VPNs to get around age checks" I think "...to get around age checks" is controlling. It isn't illegal to promote VPN's in that country; it's illegal to promote their usefulness in circumventing other laws.
The law reads like it applies to platforms required to do the checks rather than third party service providers.
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#20Better than that at least in the UK, they are not handing the data to the government, but to unregulated, diverse third parties - what could go wrong.