What if I rent a cheap VPS overseas and wireguard my traffic to that?
So technically if you are from UK, they might come at your VPS provider if they find that you use them as a VPN (law's kinda vague from what I can gather)
Your VPS provider wouldn't really protect your privacy for 4 $ so a snitch.
My point which fucking scares me if I were a UK citizen is that they just have to do it once to scare you to your guts.
Maybe I am paranoid but I couldn't see this shit happen 2-3 years ago & UK is atleast moving at a very dystopian rate and I am not sure if other countries might move in similar direction too if UK experiment turns out to be helpful to the people in power or helps in curbing out protests/real change in any capacity.
I know the law hasn't passed but chances are unless osmething very unlikley happens, its gonna get passed
What's up with democracies trying to imprison their own citizens in such sense, whether digitally or in person. Some countries feel like prisons rather than free land now.
These were the best benefits of democracies over authoritarianism.
I genuinely question with such points if democracy actually just becomes a dual party authoritarianism. Sure people vote but just scare them for real change just once. If a person speaks online, even if they use a VPN, just catch one extreme and scare the moderates from even ever saying something different than what govt says
Say it with me, 2+2=5 (1984 reference)
maybe it is still illegal, IDK, bu likely due to other laws (eg a generic "it is illegal to use workaround for X")
[0] maybe it is still illegal, IDK, bu likely due to other laws (eg a generic "it is illegal to use workaround for X")
Irrelevent. See:
must apply the child VPN prohibition to the provider of any relevant VPN service which is, or is likely to be—
(i) offered or marketed to *persons in the* United Kingdom;
(ii) provided to a significant number of persons
>“relevant VPN service” means a service of providing, in the course of a business, to a consumer, a virtual private network for accessing the internet;
I think it would be a significant stretch to say that a provider that provisions a VPS instance is a "business providing a virtual private network".
Just because you could run a VPN, it's not the VPS provider that is offering a VPN service.
I can't see how they could apply it to VPS providers without meaning AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean, etc would all start having to do age verification checks. Can't imagine here would not be a massive push back against that.
I think they would include AWS and the pushback would be ineffective. Many AWS users could be immediately age-verified by existing payment card info.
Paying by card isn't enough to verify age. They'd have to specifically verify via passport or other ID.
It is in UK.
Ofcom, the media regulator, has set out a number of ways websites can verify the age of users, external, including through credit card checks ...