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I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them (lemmings.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world
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[–] 112 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of a professor who linked a pirate copy of the text book in his syllabus and warned several times do not attempt to use these sources because doing so is a violation of copyright law! Please purchase the book!

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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    I fear that calling them out so obviously it will just push them to target vpns next.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Then Brits can use TOR 😎

    If they block the publicly-accessible nodes too, they can use bridges.

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

    Hell yeah.

    It's very hard to block TOR, because it's an hydra. Block one method, multiple other methods take its place.

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

    I use TOR because over on Reddit I got unjustly permabanned. It works great! I rarely use reddit but there just happens to be one community that has some helpful information that I'll likely need to follow for the next few months. So TOR has been great for that!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Reddit is bad

    It had potential, but it has gone to waste.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Reddit has done things in it's lifespan, and is dying of financeer-cancer, like about half egregors and autonomous zones that come and go. The smaller ones usually die of generational trauma.

    It all goes to compost and echos though, not all to the void.

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 1 year ago

    Many have tried that, IMO getting the word out about VPNs even to non-technical users is important because most people still don't know what that is. If they ever try to ban VPNs, even non-technical people will know how to use them and how to avoid the bans.

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

    Blocking vpns is tricky in a western society because so many companies cannot function without them.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They wouldn't block the protocol, just the most common commercial providers. That's very easily doable.

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I'm an idiot, the image was broken so I opened it in a new tab and was extremely confused as to why I was being 'blocked' even with a vpn active

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    [+] 0 points 1 year ago (18 children)
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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Source? Cause mine (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50 aka the fucking law) doesn't say anything like that.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Not who you’re responding to but techlinked called out that it’s illegal as well and showed the legislation text in their video. But if you’re not implementing the ID check in the first place then mentioning vpns doesn’t matter at all. I can’t even get your link to load.

    Edit: timestamp 1:50 https://youtu.be/uGJHzPHOFXM

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I don't believe guidelines are above the actual law.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k81lj8nvpo

    According to Ofcom, platforms must not host, share or permit content encouraging use of VPNs to get around age checks.

    The government told the BBC under the Online Safety Act, it will be illegal for platforms to do this.

    Ofcom is the regulator so I’m guessing they read the law a little more closely than you. And BBC states that the government explicitly told them it would be illegal.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, that would be a first time enforcement didn't really bother to read the law they should be enforcing.

    So they might add it later when stuff like this becomes more common, but right now it's not illegal, according to the law and disregarding everything else that doesn't really have any legal hold and is really just a guideline.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Reddit is super-screwed then because its full of users doing exactly that anywhere this topic comes up.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I very much doubt it has anything to do with being a citizen. The law would apply to the company making the statements itself.

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

    Section 4.37 of Ofcom's Guidance on Highly Effective Age Assurance for Part 3 Services:

    In addition, service providers should not publish content on their service that directs or encourages UK users to circumvent the age assurance process or the access controls, for example by providing information about or links to a virtual private network (VPN) which may be used by children to circumvent the relevant processes.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's guidance, not law.

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

    Ofcom is the designated regulator and has the power of enforcement. The law doesn't define what age verification means, only that it much be 'highly effective' (Section 12 (6)). It is therefore left to Ofcom to set out in its Code of Practices (Section 41 (3)) what 'highly effective age verification' means, which is what this guidance is. This isn't Ofcom being nice, this is them telling you how they're going to enforce the law.

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