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UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill (www.birminghammail.co.uk)
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Prominent backbench MP Sarah Champion launched a campaign against VPNs previously, saying: “My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.

"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.” And the Labour Party said there were “gaps” in the bill that needed to be amended.

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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Labour has already spoken out and said they will make no attempts to ban VPNs.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    This makes me feel like they were in a bind here. The so called "online safety bill" was a tory concoction that took years to pass through the courts because of how invasive it is and how anyone could easily bypass it.

    If labour want to stop it, they'll be accused of not wanting to protect children.

    Whatever anyone thinks of labour, I'd ask people to ask themselves, if you were in that position, what option do they have other than to let it play out as the spectacular failure it was always going to be and making sure everyone knows who's fault that was afterwards?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    No. They could put it into a review and quietly shitcan this. It's not particularly popular. They just want to say they're protecting kids.

    They're spineless and Keir is an authoritarian.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    "Oh, i see. You want to help paedophiles do you? Why do you hate children then, hey? Of course keef comes out to help the Jimmy Savile brigade again."

    Congratulations, you just lost the media narrative and now all but one paper is going to write about how all the things that hurt every child in the UK is your fault, for the next 3 years. The whole system is compromised and they're passengers, only a little more engaged than we are.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not really the narrative. Reform opposes it and Tories likely will. Only Lib Dems will complain and media ignore them anyway.

    Our media are bad, but not that tabloid.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why would the tories oppose thier own bill?

    I don't think you're fully aware of all the factors here.

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