just one of many reminders of how dumb my little island is. thinking of moving to spain
haven't been affected yet in my day to day but I'll let you know.
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EU is currently heading towards breaking encryption so they follow all your encrypted data. It's getting shitty everywhere.
I think I'm fairly lucky in that non of the sites I use have gone the geoblock route. Even so, I pay for a VPN so it's not like that is effective.
Are there anything you feel you need to change with feddit.uk with the law change?
I believe we're compliant with the law, I've patched our Lemmy with this so we're not hosting NSFW content and to my knowledge we don't have any communities that need to be age kept (ones that encourage eating disorders, suicide, or self-harm). I think we need to make some changes to our TOC and land some documentation explaining how the report feature works 'in a way that a child can understand'*. There are more changes I'm looking at making in Lemmy that would make Ofcom happier (like this), but again I don't think we'd have issues with Ofcom if they looked at us.
* We have to assume you're all children as we can't say otherwise unless we do surveillance (or 'age verification') despite the average age of users of this instance probably being in the 30s.
Oh, you got a PR merged, well done!
Sounds like it's all good then. The GDPR aspect is probably the main regulatory issue then I would imagine. Not much that can be done about that though....
VPNs aren't blocked, so it's pretty much a non-issue for me.
Before you know it VPNs are gonna be subject to age verification.
Make your own VPN on a VP... Oh, VPS providers are gonna be subject to age verification eventually. Not a permanent solution either.
Tor seems to be the only resilient solution tbh.
They are private networks for a reason. VPNs in China are not subject to Chinese laws because they are often run outside of China. To prevent people from using VPNs 'according to the law' will essentially involve not having VPNs altogether, which a lot of companies rely on.
And yes, they crack down on VPNs in China but they're always around. +1 billion people have quite a few million of very intelligent people who use a VPN.
I’ve been permanently VPN’d at the gateway to a private server since the Snowden revelations, and am not affected.
crazy backbench MP who wanted a hard brexit? yeah folks are going to listen to her 🤣
uhm will hit europe too.. think about chatcontrol.. maybe ~october
No impact yet. Tried to use it as an excuse to move my friends away from discord but no such luck!