Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act | Hacker News

2025/11/09 08:03:00 GMT

Hackernews comment amongst themselves regarding Ofcom’s chasing foreign websites rather than pursuing domestic censorship:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45860654

age verification censorship ofcom online safety online safety act Preston Byrne surveillance vpns

Fediverse reactions

Comments

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

More posts

UK Government King’s Speech proposes “Cyber ASBO” with obvious risk of scope creep into censorship

2026/05/13
Don’t take away our freedom to play games when we want | 38 Degrees

2026/04/30
‘Von der Leyen Announces the EU’s New Age Verification App Claiming it is “Completely Anonymous” & users “Cannot be Tracked”’ | …the EU is about to have its ‘Clipper’ moment

2026/04/15
From 2019: ‘If there were 5 million “bad people” on Facebook – terrorists, criminals, drug-dealers, whatever – that would be 0.2% of the userbase’

2026/04/13