The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification.
A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.
@mullvadnet
They'll have to *really* fast track it if they want to pass it before we yeet them into the rubbish bin of history. Government by announcement only gets you so far when your polls are collapsing and your own guys are saying you should resign.
And even if they do, the next government can repeal it easily, because hasty legislation reactively banning things doesn't have any complicated infrastructure to tear down or budget gaps to cover. It can just go away.
@GlasWolf @mullvadnet
If they get in we all have worse problems. However, let's see.
If I had to predict, I'd say the vote will be so unprecedentedly split that there is no way for any one party to form a government without at least a confidence-and-supply deal including the Greens (or in the extreme case, the Greens+SNP+LibDem)
Deform UK Ltd simply *cannot* negotiate such a deal. So I don't think Farage's blackshirts are going to be forming the next government.
@GlasWolf @mullvadnet
The only reason I'd call that unlikely is the same reason there's any danger from Reform at all: we don't have PR.
In a first-past-the-post system, the two far right parties are going to be parasitising and splitting each other's votes in most constituencies.
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