UK to introduce online age verification checks this month

With this and the UK government forcing Apple to backdoor iCloud (which lead to them no longer offering ADP in the UK), it feels like we're losing the battle for any kind of online privacy. It feels like the ship is sinking and I want to leave more than ever.

>It's surely the darkest fear of any mum or dad - losing their child to a world that's out of sight, a place where they can't protect them.

Why is it the government's responsibility to parent children?

my answer to these kinds of laws will always be VPNs until they eventually ban those services (and i'm sure they will). then we'll be in game of cat and mouse.

another hope i had was ironically the trump admin. my hope was that tariffs would be tied to internet freedom. i guess i was wrong.

EU: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-europ... https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-age-ver...

AUS: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-sear... https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/consultation-cooperation...

Texas: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpd1xp2l4wno