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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 (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Contrary to the general opinion, I think this law is positive: it's teaching everyone how absolutely needed a VPN is nowadays.

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's teaching me that a guillotine is needed.

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