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

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Post by alextingle »

Tokumei-no-hito wrote: post #659
GlitchRider47 wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think your modification really changes anything from the original comment.

OP implies that increased far-right polling is one element of the country losing all sense. this response implies that the country has lost ass sense and thus far-right polling has increased as an attempt to get back to sense.

Um, no. Sensible people don't support the far right. The country has lost all sense, so there are fewer sensible people, so the fools who vote for the far right are on the rise.

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

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Post by NewsaHackO »

tossandthrow wrote: post #541
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…

> One tweak to the rules and all of a sudden not only do porn sites have to verify the age of their UK visitors but also anyone connecting from something other than a residential ISP. The UK does not have jurisdictional power over anything outside their country - they can not a foreign site to do age verification of foreign residents. Now, the UK can say that they need to check for all UK residents, regardless of the…

Other counties and regions have or will have similar laws. I can definitely see the EU, UK and US collaborating on something like this.

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Post by amelius »

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…

Maybe time to start a second, parallel version of the internet. Something with mesh networks.

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Post by alextingle »

wsintra2022 wrote: post #248
alextingle wrote: post #239

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But… you have discrepancies like the town of Middlesbrough , a small North Yorkshire town with crime rates on par with large European cities and rampant poverty and drug abuse with no clear way out because no one seems willing to invest in the once infant Hercules.

Middlesbrough's problems are not the reason people in Dudley, or Stoke on Trent vote for fascists.

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Post by teamonkey »

rubyAce wrote: post #236
ChrisKnott wrote: post #31

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Do you have any examples of people being arrested for criticising a law? Most of the time these dystopian descriptions of the UK turn out to be completely overblown nonsense when you look into them properly.

There are discussions in parliament about grooming gangs on X. These are soft-censored (you can't see it without passing the the age verification). Few people will be bothered to make an account to see a post and pass age verification. Therefore it slows the sharing of information. It isn't about outright banning the discussion, because that will cause considerable push-back by the public. So you dress up a policy as…

Parliament debates are broadcast on the BBC and https://parliamentlive.tv/ . Are they age restricted there?

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Post by amelius »

blendo wrote: post #483

I need to prove my age to buy a lottery ticket or purchase alcohol. The merchant typically doesn't save my id info. What if I could purchase a unique QR code, good for maybe a month, that I could use online to prove my age? There'd still be problems in the US with 1st amendment issues, but I'd at least remain anonymous.

> The merchant typically doesn't save my id info.

Don't give adtech any ideas.

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Post by tom_ »

ifwinterco wrote: post #131
orthoxerox wrote: post #76

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> Sarah Champion is Labour MP for Rotherham. Seriously? You can't make this up: she represents the town that did nothing about a massive (and completely offline) child grooming and molestation network for years and she has the gall to say, "think of the children on the Internet"?

Not sure why you're getting downvoted, this is a classic YooKay 2025 moment

I assume it's because she is quite well known for not taking the grooming gangs' side.

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Post by [deleted] »

mystifyingpoi wrote: post #563
jlokier wrote: post #438

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A personal cloud VM is very bad VPN for some purposes. The static IP address, recorded by every site you visit, is directly linked back to you personally, and only you.

You can recreate the instance every 60 minutes, I've tried such approach once. But such setup is useless anyway, most services block datacenter traffic by default.

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Post by babypuncher »

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…

I don't think the incentive structure is there for porn sites to start blocking VPNs the way Netflix does. And legislation requiring them to would be pretty toothless since the only mechanism they rely on to enforce the rules is making local ISPs block the offending sites.

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Post by lavezzi »

qingcharles wrote: post #430
nly wrote: post #73

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This isn't about illegal sites? I don't think many people object to blacklisting known sources of child pornography etc. The fact is you now have to verify your identity (name and photo id) in the UK to access an adult subreddit.

What kind of photo ID does the UK have? I didn't think there was any kind of national ID if you didn't drive?

provisional license, passport, etc.
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