While Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are legal in the UK, according to this law, platforms have a clear responsibility to prevent children from bypassing safety protections. This includes blocking content that promotes VPNs or other workarounds specifically aimed at young users.
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Also it is very telling that they write:
The Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA) reports that there has been an additional 5 million age checks on a daily basis as UK-based internet users seek to access sites that are age-restricted.
…when Peter Kyle went to extraordinary lengths to not state how many extra people had signed up for VPNs earlier this week, but now they are talking about “an additional 5 million age checks” without citing the base rate for that statistic.
It’s almost like they don’t want the comparison.
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