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Pornhub, YouPorn, Redtube, and other content sharing platforms will block new users in the UK starting next week(February 2) (www.aylo.com)
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[–] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

UK is going to be requiring age verification for VPN access. https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-house-of-lords-votes-to-extend-age-verification-to-vpns

Will this mean all VPNs will comply? Obviously not, but the bigger names will either pull out or comply as we seeing with the bigger porn sites.

The next step after this will be criminalization of using a VPN without age verification.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Wait, WHAT? They already voted? I didn't expect that so soon...

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    It was planned from the beginningas the real drivers behind the detail of the legislation, the security services, knew people would use VPNs and those have always been the main target.

    Its why the legislation was written in the first place. Most people's identity is already tied to their connection via big tech social media. Its the people who use VPNs they can lose track of.

    I would expect this to be a live requirement by the end of the year at the latest.

    Just be glad the client side scanning keeps getting rejected thats in the same legislation.

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