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I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by rikudou@lemmings.world to c/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I don't believe guidelines are above the actual law.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k81lj8nvpo

According to Ofcom, platforms must not host, share or permit content encouraging use of VPNs to get around age checks.

The government told the BBC under the Online Safety Act, it will be illegal for platforms to do this.

Ofcom is the regulator so I’m guessing they read the law a little more closely than you. And BBC states that the government explicitly told them it would be illegal.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that would be the first time enforcement didn't really bother to read the law they should be enforcing.

So they might add it later when stuff like this becomes more common, but right now it's not illegal, according to the law and disregarding everything else that doesn't really have any legal hold and is really just a guideline.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

You didn’t read the second sentence of that quote.

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