Privacy

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UK is a joke, what is going on over there

They could literally just put resources into modern parental controls and better parenting. But this is about anonymity and data collection databases for their AI partners.

Even if an ID was verified without storing any data, how would they know if people were reusing the same ID or if someone else was accessing the account? ID verification isn't the solution. But punishing negligent parents will incentivize them to do their job and watch what their kids do online

It's like a slippery slope of stupid. If they wanted kids to not see porn, or social media, they could have mandated ISPs, mobile operators and Apple / Google implement parental controls on < 18 accounts and provide parental control software for family accounts. Adults or families who did not explicitly opt in to this law would be fully exempt from it.

Let's assume the UK (and others) take a fully-fascist approach and try to squash VPNs within their jurisdiction. What would they have to do to achieve this, and is it practical? The way I see it, they'd have to...

1. keep track the IPs of any VPN entry node (to update blocklists, see step 2)
2. have them blocked (e.g. by using mandatory DNS filtering, probably applied at the ISP level)
3. make sure people do not just switch to DNS servers not under their / the ISPs' control.

Can somebody chime in and check my reasoning? The way I see it, this will hold off non-technical folks, but to make it absolutely waterproof would be quite hard and require a game of constant whack-a-mole, wouldn't it?

This was always the logic next step to these campaigns. Sighhhh

How is the uk even a real country at this point

They tried to bring in digital ID and that failed. This will fail too in so many ways. Privacy is a human right and privacy from a Government is the ultimate human right.