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“…the general consensus was that it’s just much easier to just join Roblox or something if you’re trying to find children in bulk.”
Pithy commentary from Wendy Grossman on the Techgrumps podcast: We did if for the children | Podcast Episode on RSS.com https://rss.com/podcasts/techgrumps/2150242/
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Google Trends: “VPN” in the UK, past 12 months
Quelle Surprise: Explore search interest for Vpn by time, location and popularity on Google Trends https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-GB&tz=-60&geo=GB&hl=en-GB&q=Vpn&sni=6
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If you use Twitter & would like to see more discussion regarding the UK Online Safety Act Deployment, here’s a ready-made search…
Visit the following link: https://github.com/alecmuffett/ready-made-twitter-searches#uk-online-safety-act-deployment …and click LATEST or TOP as appropriate, to track the zeitgeist.
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Bloomberg: “What Are VPNs And Will They Undermine Online Safety Rules?” | … answer: “VPNs empower mature users to circumvent needless proliferation of personal data”
But even if age assurance systems are in place, children and teenagers could just use VPNs to circumvent the restrictions, particularly as many VPN apps are free or offer cheap subscriptions. Adults may also use this workaround out of fear that hackers could steal the personal data they submit to verify their date of birth.…
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VPN Demand Statistics: VPN Demand Surges Around the World | UK VPN demand increase: 1,987% Date: Jul 25 – 27 (ongoing)
VPN demand has surged in the UK, following the introduction of age verification requirements on July 25 (by the country’s Online Safety Act) on online material deemed unsuitable for anyone under-age. Demand for VPNs immediately surged by 1,327% in the UK on July 25 compared to the daily average over the previous 28 days. It…
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Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About | Techdirt
Masnick on fire: A law supposedly designed to protect children now requires victims of sexual assault to submit government IDs to access support communities. People struggling with addiction must undergo facial recognition scans to find help quitting drinking or smoking. The UK government has somehow concluded that access to basic health information and peer support…
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Guardian: “Why opponents of the Online Safety Act aren’t ‘on Jimmy Savile’s side’”
Some have suggested that the government could regulate age, instead of outsourcing this regulation to third-party companies. “I think the flip side of that is, do you want the government to have a record of who’s using porn sites … As we know the government is not great with data leaks and breaches. I think…
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Video: Dr Kate Lister: “Who is gathering and storing your data for the new Online Safety Act?”
Answer: it’s the porn companies who were lobbying for it in the first place.
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Ofcom *may* be starting to understand that platforms are free to label entire forums as 18+ but that this conflicts with the OSA leading to overblocking
Clarifying press releases such as the above presume that all individual items of content are classified for appropriateness under the Online Safety Act; but for example: * Professional notes on Access Control The above post is written for normal people. If you want to know more about various forms of access control and to nitpick…
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The Online Safety Act humiliates us all | New Statesman
Starmer has admirable qualities, but he is also a moralising disciplinarian reflexively becoming more and more himself amid the troubles of a hard first year. Labour struggles, people get locked up for tweets. Labour struggles, people can’t protest for Palestine. Labour struggles, people can’t watch porn. Now, keeping children away from porn is as wise,…
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r/osawars: new subreddit discussing news on all perspectives of the online safety act
https://www.reddit.com/r/osawars/
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There is a very simple reason why people are turning to VPNs rather than pursuing Age Verification
Question: would you use a single free or cheap VPN app on your phone to circumvent all of the hassle, or would you prefer to jump through the hoops of different age verification processes separately for every single site you visit? Ignoring censorship, ignoring surveillance, ignoring proliferation of personal data, the answer is pretty obvious.