PCMag:
A government commissioner calls for age verification for VPNs, citing the risk of children using them to bypass the UK’s Online Safety Act for easy access to adult content.
Just in case it wasn’t obvious the first time around: applying age verification to VPNs to stop children using them, will stop EVERYONE using them & thereby cause unpopular chaos, @peterkyle @ChildrensComm
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2 responses to “Just in case it wasn’t obvious the first time around: applying age verification to VPNs to stop children using them, will stop EVERYONE using them & thereby cause unpopular chaos, @peterkyle @ChildrensComm”
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@alecm I wonder how this would work with a vpn provider who doesn’t even know my name?
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They’d try to ban that. See what’s happening to 4chan by comparison.
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