Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: online safety act

Amazing: it turns out that some UK schools mandate the use of VPNs by their students in order to put student traffic through a centralised filter; others ban them entirely

2025/08/19
Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told | BBC News

2025/08/19
Afterthought re: Beeban Kidron’s “…It’s really an important part of childhood to transgress … [Using a VPN] is like a child climbing out the window at night when you’ve grounded them”

2025/08/18
Ban-Happy Kid-Ban Baroness Beeban Kidron thanks self & peers, stabs Ofcom, declares BOTH “mission accomplished!” AND “…kids *should* rebel, at least we’ve taught them to use VPNs…”

2025/08/18
“…but without the Online Safety Act, how will we protect the children?”

2025/08/18
Someone asked me to describe the circumstances which brought about the Online Safety Act

2025/08/17
“With only 4 votes against, the continued opposition to the Online Safety Act is now overwhelmingly a Young Liberals policy”

2025/08/16
We have a duty of care to speak out against the Online Safety Act | LibDem Voice

2025/08/16
Could some journalist please ask PornHub on the record *why* they block access due to age verification in nearly half of the USA, however they embrace it in the UK?

2025/08/16
The Online Safety Act risks making everyone less safe | Index on Censorship

2025/08/16
The Online Safety Act censors dissent, while letting paedophiles roam free | Telegraph | …for once someone speaks the quiet part out loud in a right-wing forum

2025/08/15
Wow: subreddit r/osawars — discussion of pros and cons of the UK Online Safety Act — has been banned from Reddit

2025/08/15