Just in case it wasn’t obvious the first time around: applying age verification to VPNs to stop children using them, will stop EVERYONE using them & thereby cause unpopular chaos, @peterkyle @ChildrensComm
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114562
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Just in case it wasn’t obvious the first time around: applying age verification to VPNs to stop children using them, will stop EVERYONE using them & thereby cause unpopular chaos, @peterkyle @ChildrensComm

PCMag: A government commissioner calls for age verification for VPNs, citing the risk of children using them to bypass the UK’s Online Safety Act for easy access to adult content.

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Just in case it wasn’t obvious the first time around: applying age verification to VPNs to stop children using them, will stop EVERYONE using them & thereby cause unpopular chaos, @peterkyle @ChildrensComm

PCMag:

A government commissioner calls for age verification for VPNs, citing the risk of children using them to bypass the UK’s Online Safety Act for easy access to adult content.

https://twitter.com/PCMag/status/1957880544605155412

#ageVerification #censorship #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #PeterKyle #RachelDeSouza #surveillance #VPN

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A government commissioner calls for age verification for VPNs, citing the risk of children using them to bypass the UK's Online Safety Act for easy access to adult content. https://t.co/bKM5kjylk8

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Please: at what point does it cease to be “stumbling across porn” for a teen (or indeed anyone) to install & enable a VPN and type “PORN” into a search query or URL?
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114551
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #RachelDeSouza #censorship #ofcom #surveillance #vpn
Please: at what point does it cease to be “stumbling across porn” for a teen (or indeed anyone) to install & enable a VPN and type “PORN” into a search query or URL?

The threat model which drove the online safety act was quite clear, and some of the minds behind it have already declared victory – so why is anyone trying to extend it further? Perhaps the r…

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Please: at what point does it cease to be “stumbling across porn” for a teen (or indeed anyone) to install & enable a VPN and type “PORN” into a search query or URL?

The threat model which drove the online safety act was quite clear, and some of the minds behind it have already declared victory – so why is anyone trying to extend it further?

Perhaps the regulator can explain at what point “parenting” is meant to come back into play?

#ageVerification #censorship #ofcom #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #RachelDeSouza #surveillance #VPN

Perhaps someone can ask #Ofcom about children not “stumbling” but bodily throwing themselves into adult material online?

This tactic will alienate our children, make them harder to guide, not be effective, and they will still not receive necessary education in consent: UK porn age verification stop children seeing ad…

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Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told | BBC News

We need to start making the point that secure, anonymous communication is not the problem. The problem is parenting. Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: “Of course, we need age verification on VP…

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Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told | BBC News

We need to start making the point that secure, anonymous communication is not the problem.

The problem is parenting.

Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: “Of course, we need age verification on VPNs – it’s absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that’s one of my major recommendations.”

She wants ministers to explore requiring VPNs “to implement highly effective age assurances to stop underage users from accessing pornography.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo

#ageVerification #censorship #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #RachelDeSouza #surveillance #VPN

Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

The children's commissioner for England tells the BBC virtual private networks are a "loophole that needs closing.

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