Earlier quoted context omitted.
The UK is not an EU country.
But would you agree going into people's houses and arresting them for mean tweets would be infringing on their civil liberties just a little bit?
UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16
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#14So how long will we have to wait before it dawns on them that VPNs are also used to circumvent IP address blocks in the UK, and other countries of course.
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#15EU countries seem to be obsessed with infringing upon their citizens privacy
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#17Is there actually a massive problem that they are trying to solve with this?
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#18Gotta hand it to them - "protecting the children" is a pretty good pretext.
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#19or look at their personal data
or use behavior analytics to target minority groups as "risks" sending law enforcement to harass or kill them.
or store all their personal data on a 3rd party companies insecure servers
You have to start surveillance young, get them used to it early so they don't realize how bad it is!
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#20So lemme guess - in order to prove one's age, one needs to obtain a digital ID and use said ID to gain access to the internet thereby creating a perfect system to monitor one's internet activity. Gotta hand it to them - "protecting the children" is a pretty good pretext.
The one from yesterday was discussing how australia is banning social media for anyone under 16. Most comments were supportive because they hate social media.
A few comments were discussing how it is just a way to propagate more KYC.