Give it a few years, and basically everywhere will have this sort of thing. The age of the “free” internet is over, we are now entering the age of digital ID’s and full-blown surveillance states. We just happened to be one of the first nations to get this enacted.
We only ever seem to be pioneers when it makes our lives worse, and considering our own MP’s are charging VPN’s to expense accounts, they clearly know the whole kids’ safety angle is BS.
I’m shocked. Shocked. Who on earth could have possibly forseen this outcome?
People are learning to use tools they should never need to use. Bad times these we have to live in.
The OSA isn’t there to protect children. It’s to monitor internet users.
It’s notable that banning personal VPNs is on the table. They will tout this ‘evasion of the law’ as a reason to restrict people further.
The OSA is a nanny state abomination.
Calling it a failure is a bit of a stretch considering this is more for the children of the future. Not the broken gooners that we have today.
So who’s taking bets on which MP gets caught using a vpn to wank in public first? 😂
2 months ago my stepdad told me he supported the act because it protected children and he wasn’t affected because he doesn’t even look at porn. He also thought VPNs were a boy used by criminals I didn’t argue with him, I just figured I’d wait until any of his hobby related websites suddenly require ID. He lasted 3 days and now he has a VPN because he doesn’t trust sharing his details with the internet.
I’ve seen so many people try to argue that using a VPN makes you a criminal, but I used a VPN for years for work, whenever it had to travel I’d use the VPN if I was in a public place from r protection. I was never using a VPN for porn or even just to get different TV shows in different regions.
How does a VPN prove the OSA failed? Statistics on child porn consumption would prove that.
VPN’d up to my eyeballs and I’d never touched one before. Poor legislation and they should feel bad.
It honestly has failed. I have done more wanking recently since getting a VPN than I have I years.
Thanks GOV. For making wanking great again.
100% this is some insider trading shenanigans where they all bought shares in VPN services before announcing this.
Yes people can get around it with a VPN, but **it still should be repealed**. It’s a dangerous act that is going to result in a massive leak of people’s data. Scams are no doubt going to increase because people are going to be providing their details to shady websites. Sites, such as Reddit, don’t have a good way to impliment so those that cannot verify their ID cannot block individuals – meaning they can be harassed without recourse. There’s also the rampant excuse to use the act to censor online discussions to try and silence groups that’s already resulted in help forums being age restricted.
Small voice at the back: excuse me, how does increased VPN usage prove the OSA failed?
Make sure you don’t use those Israeli VPNs or you’ll just fall for the Israeli trap.
Anyone who is not a boomer with either basic or non computing skill knew this was going to happen.
It is quite amazing how up in arms everyone is about this act. If you didn’t start using a VPN before The Investigatory Powers Act came into force, I don’t know what to tell you. Well, get a VPN, better later than never.
This idea that “it was inherited from a previous government” seems silly to me. The previous government started it, but labour put it forward in a state that the conservatives unanimously voted against it, and labour unanimously voted for it with their large majority.
Find out how your MP voted, and send them emails (if their email works, my MP just keeps bouncing) or phone them daily during your lunch and leave a disgruntled but polite voice mail if they supported it, or a congratulatory message if they opposed it and call on them to press against the slander the gov is putting forwards about people being opposed to censorship (as is the obvious conclusion of this act) being ‘pro paedophiles’.
Though tbh, I’m a little pro paedo. My uncle was a paedo and as a kid I always saw a bit of him in me. (Forgive the joke, I lost my taste in covid)
Been using a VPN for 7 years now, and not once have I regretted it. The last few weeks I have only made me regret the decision less.
I mean…. why not just have companies have 18+ locks on that you can ask them to turn off. That way it’s the person paying the bill who decides and not some faceless authoritarian dictatorship. Next they’ll want a drop of blood to verify
The internet did this to itself. The trolling and constant abuse online brought this in. I don’t like it, but I understand it.
They genuinely don’t care if you use a VPN.
It doesn’t even have to be 100% effective; if it significantly reduces the number of kids seeing “harmful” content online (which it will because most kids aren’t going to get a VPN), then it will be considered to have done its job.
How are underage kids paying for VPNs?
Ah, so plenty of privacy for the overlords and their Ukrainian rent boys but no privacy for the plebs.
My money is that the act will be signficiantly rolled back in 6-12 months. There’ll be a few data breaches, evidence will come out that it truly has done nothing, everyone will get angrier and angrier, and there’ll either be a centralised verification system that keeps users properly anonymous, or the whole thing will be practically scrapped. It’s way too politically untenable to keep this up.
Duck Duck Go seems to work pretty well, and it’s free, with no security risks.
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Give it a few years, and basically everywhere will have this sort of thing. The age of the “free” internet is over, we are now entering the age of digital ID’s and full-blown surveillance states. We just happened to be one of the first nations to get this enacted.
We only ever seem to be pioneers when it makes our lives worse, and considering our own MP’s are charging VPN’s to expense accounts, they clearly know the whole kids’ safety angle is BS.
I’m shocked. Shocked. Who on earth could have possibly forseen this outcome?
People are learning to use tools they should never need to use. Bad times these we have to live in.
The OSA isn’t there to protect children. It’s to monitor internet users.
It’s notable that banning personal VPNs is on the table. They will tout this ‘evasion of the law’ as a reason to restrict people further.
The OSA is a nanny state abomination.
Calling it a failure is a bit of a stretch considering this is more for the children of the future. Not the broken gooners that we have today.
So who’s taking bets on which MP gets caught using a vpn to wank in public first? 😂
2 months ago my stepdad told me he supported the act because it protected children and he wasn’t affected because he doesn’t even look at porn. He also thought VPNs were a boy used by criminals I didn’t argue with him, I just figured I’d wait until any of his hobby related websites suddenly require ID. He lasted 3 days and now he has a VPN because he doesn’t trust sharing his details with the internet.
I’ve seen so many people try to argue that using a VPN makes you a criminal, but I used a VPN for years for work, whenever it had to travel I’d use the VPN if I was in a public place from r protection. I was never using a VPN for porn or even just to get different TV shows in different regions.
How does a VPN prove the OSA failed? Statistics on child porn consumption would prove that.
VPN’d up to my eyeballs and I’d never touched one before. Poor legislation and they should feel bad.
It honestly has failed. I have done more wanking recently since getting a VPN than I have I years.
Thanks GOV. For making wanking great again.
100% this is some insider trading shenanigans where they all bought shares in VPN services before announcing this.
Yes people can get around it with a VPN, but **it still should be repealed**. It’s a dangerous act that is going to result in a massive leak of people’s data. Scams are no doubt going to increase because people are going to be providing their details to shady websites. Sites, such as Reddit, don’t have a good way to impliment so those that cannot verify their ID cannot block individuals – meaning they can be harassed without recourse. There’s also the rampant excuse to use the act to censor online discussions to try and silence groups that’s already resulted in help forums being age restricted.
Small voice at the back: excuse me, how does increased VPN usage prove the OSA failed?
Make sure you don’t use those Israeli VPNs or you’ll just fall for the Israeli trap.
Anyone who is not a boomer with either basic or non computing skill knew this was going to happen.
It is quite amazing how up in arms everyone is about this act. If you didn’t start using a VPN before The Investigatory Powers Act came into force, I don’t know what to tell you. Well, get a VPN, better later than never.
This idea that “it was inherited from a previous government” seems silly to me. The previous government started it, but labour put it forward in a state that the conservatives unanimously voted against it, and labour unanimously voted for it with their large majority.
https://votes.parliament.uk/votes/commons/division/1926?byMember=False#noes
Find out how your MP voted, and send them emails (if their email works, my MP just keeps bouncing) or phone them daily during your lunch and leave a disgruntled but polite voice mail if they supported it, or a congratulatory message if they opposed it and call on them to press against the slander the gov is putting forwards about people being opposed to censorship (as is the obvious conclusion of this act) being ‘pro paedophiles’.
Though tbh, I’m a little pro paedo. My uncle was a paedo and as a kid I always saw a bit of him in me. (Forgive the joke, I lost my taste in covid)
Been using a VPN for 7 years now, and not once have I regretted it. The last few weeks I have only made me regret the decision less.
I mean…. why not just have companies have 18+ locks on that you can ask them to turn off. That way it’s the person paying the bill who decides and not some faceless authoritarian dictatorship. Next they’ll want a drop of blood to verify
The internet did this to itself. The trolling and constant abuse online brought this in. I don’t like it, but I understand it.
They genuinely don’t care if you use a VPN.
It doesn’t even have to be 100% effective; if it significantly reduces the number of kids seeing “harmful” content online (which it will because most kids aren’t going to get a VPN), then it will be considered to have done its job.
How are underage kids paying for VPNs?
Ah, so plenty of privacy for the overlords and their Ukrainian rent boys but no privacy for the plebs.
My money is that the act will be signficiantly rolled back in 6-12 months. There’ll be a few data breaches, evidence will come out that it truly has done nothing, everyone will get angrier and angrier, and there’ll either be a centralised verification system that keeps users properly anonymous, or the whole thing will be practically scrapped. It’s way too politically untenable to keep this up.
Duck Duck Go seems to work pretty well, and it’s free, with no security risks.
They all fail
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