Should parents be given better tools at home rather than pushing everyone to get age-checked to use social media?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTyB20drEi0

#OnlineSafetyAct #Privacy #DigitalRights #UKPolitics #ChildSafety #SelfSovereignty

Restore Britain is saying things many privacy-minded people want to hear, especially on Digital ID and the Online Safety Act.

But Cyber Waffle's caution is fair: saying the right thing is not the same as proving you can deliver it.

That is the real question here. Not whether the rhetoric sounds good, but whether a very new party can turn bold promises into actual law without watering them down the moment pressure hits.

Track record matters. A credible route to delivery matters. Political maturity matters.

So yes, watch Restore Britain. Scrutinise them. But do not switch off your critical thinking just because the slogans land well.

Too early to trust, or worth keeping on the radar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pu04yaWm0

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VPNs are becoming a political target.

Russia is tightening its crackdown on VPNs and censorship tools. In the UK, the direction of travel is different but still worrying: age checks, wider internet restriction powers, and growing pressure around circumvention tools.

Privacy is being recast as something suspicious.

Once private access to information becomes gated, monitored, or discouraged, it gets much easier for states to shape what people can see and say.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NGT99wWKNg

Are VPNs becoming the next big battleground for digital freedom?

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“Age Verification causing people to stop installing security updates on iPhone
https://alecmuffett.com/article/153062
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Which UK party actually cares about digital privacy?

Right now, it feels like trust is the real shortage.

The Conservatives built the Online Safety Act and pushed for stronger age verification. Labour is enforcing the age-check regime, while digital ID is still under consideration by the government. A few opposition voices sound better on civil liberties, but slogans are easy when you are not the one holding power.

That is why more people are asking a harsher question: not who talks best about privacy, but who has actually earned trust not to build a permissioned internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SbsGRQsGgQ

Which party, if any, do you trust to defend digital rights?

#DigitalPrivacy #OnlineSafetyAct #DigitalID #UKPolitics #Privacy #CivilLiberties

Age Verification causing people to stop installing security updates on iPhone

What could possibly go wrong?

https://twitter.com/PrivacyMatters/status/2039955877382226278

UK officials are now openly consulting on age-restricting children's VPN use, even while government text says lawful adult VPN use should not be restricted and VPNs remain legal. The NCSC also describes VPNs as a normal secure infrastructure for organisations. And the poll being pushed around asked about banning VPNs for under-18s, not everyone, with 25% saying "don't know".

Watch: youtu.be/GCfc61j6AUQ

This is how mission creep happens: more ID checks, more third-party data collection, less privacy.

Are we protecting children, or teaching people to treat privacy tools as suspicious?

#VPN #Privacy #OnlineSafetyAct #DigitalRights #UK