It doesn't matter. For this and any future government, there's no putting the gatekeeping genie back in its bottle - it's just too useful for them.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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They don't give a crap that only large corps can 'absorb the cost' of checking age and/or ID, they just want to control/limit what we say and to whom, and what we can do online. And if that requires to kill small non-corporate-owned web (and make everything subscription-based, in the process), so be it.
When they're not being dishonest, they're incompetent and proud of it. The few that are not incompetent (and that are honest) they are not numerous enough to make a difference, which is sad. And not just in the UK. I mean, here in France it's quite interesting too, we're following steps to the UK, btw, and, what not a surprise, VPN usage has skyrocketed the second they introduced their own version of that stupid age-verification.
Next step seems obvious: make VPN use illegal for the average user (I mean people like us not, say, journalists, NGOs, lawyers and, obviously, politicians—and their families).
I wish that people would stop using kids for their own gain.
Whenever I see people using kids like this, I want to reply "Put the child down, they are not a bat for your political gains."
But as I don't have Twatter, I don't.
I wish that people would stop using kids for their own gain.
But what use are kids, then? /s
Kids create moral barrier which is hard to break whenever you try to oppose they will say you a pedophile but I just wanted to be a sigmaphile 😕