UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs

No worries, I wish I was wrong too but sadly I am just following the logic-ish that I am feeling is gonna happen, but I am happy that our confusion atleast got solved and I was able to proper explain what I am thinking.

Wrote a little poem inspired by the famous germany wwII poem-ish that I read in my history book

First they came for our social media, I didn't say anything

Then they came for our vpn, I didn't say anything (we are here)

Then they came for our vps providers, I didn't say anything (By definition a connection with VPS can still be considered a virtual private network, I don't think that they have ruled it out in the law)

My biggest fear is that this will be replicated if it turns out to be good for the people in "power"

My worries is that a single mis use of this can/will put everyone in line that nobody's safe.

I am not even sure if this rule can somehow be exploited for non UK users as UK users seems the most impacted but non UK companies would be impacted too. I mean we already had global surveillance but this is putting things into global level. First time something like this is happening in a democracy fwiw imo (atleast for VPN)

It's scary developments and I am not prepared to live through this era of privacy dystopian nightmare fuel. I hope a resistance can emerge other than the doomerism I feel right now because my point is right now its the UK citizens who are fucked by their govt. but we can just very much be likely on the chopping block too.

I know internet resistance is meh but something's better than nothing and I hope UK creates protests about this as its still not written in law (but being honest I am doomerist about it that chances of it being signed are almost 100% given that someone created a petition and it got signed in UK and they were legally forced to discuss it but somehow they didn't like wtf about the Online Safety act?)

I mean, much support to my UK friends to prevent such 1984 dystopia. (I am tired of saying 1984 but literally 1984)

Looks like a Internet resistance should be established for freedom. We privacy conscious users should combine and try to discuss more about what are some things which can be done but I must admit that I don't know the solution but I hope that a solution can come out of discussion or a clear plan of action.

Tin foil aside, my issue is that they're not even good at what they're trying to do. Their policy is inconsistent with their aims and lacks technical strategy. You think they're worried about dissenters when in practice they're more worried about elections in 2029 and whatever pearl clutching users post on mumsnet.

Secondly you seemed to not understand who set the interest rate but you are now confident in telling me about the perceived benefits of having a central bank set the interest rate. Which tells me that you just looked this all up about 10 minutes ago.

> It has value because governments cannot be trusted to directly control interest rates.

Neither can the central bank. As they are failing at their mandate of keeping inflation at 2%. The reported inflation rate is probably lower than the actual inflation rate due to CPI calculation wankery.

> The indirection has value, politicians are forced to spend political capital in order to wrest control.

To who does it have value? It doesn't benefit me (or most regular people) to have a 2% inflation rate and relatively low interest rates. It eats away the value of my savings. I now buy Gold (it hit a record high price today) and the value of my Gold and Silver has more than doubled in 3 years.

> Still better than black wednesday and Norman Lamont.

Saying it is better than a total crash isn't saying much.

Instead we have a gradual devaluing of the currency, many consumer goods are of far poorer quality (I repair my own vehicle and it is often better to get a reconditioned part than a new one), there is also "shrinkflation".

If we had a crash I actually think it would at least provide a wake up call and spur some real meaningful change.