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UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill (www.birminghammail.co.uk)
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Prominent backbench MP Sarah Champion launched a campaign against VPNs previously, saying: “My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.

"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.” And the Labour Party said there were “gaps” in the bill that needed to be amended.

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 349 points 5 days ago (27 children)

Just to fast-forward this dumb cat-and-mouse thing, the next step is people go back to torrenting their porn and deeper down the rabbit hole of garbage "free" websites skirting the rules.

As always, the UK is useful on the international stage because sometimes you need to be able to point at some idiot trying dumb stuff to explain to people why dumb stuff is dumb.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 61 points 5 days ago (5 children)

100% Brexit quickly shut up similar movements when people saw how badly it went

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Alberta seems to have missed that memo.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

Damn Alberta; always trying to leave the EU.

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