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From that sky news article

“People should be aware that children and adults who use [certain software] to bypass age checks will not benefit from the wider protections offered by our online safety rules."

Such as…….?

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just been on youtube an advert popped up for cheap VPN's

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i am getting them via email.

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So ‘dodgy” sites aren’t allowed to promote VPNs but any non dodgy site can.

The thing that got me was the bbc stated 6000 porn sites. I know of 2. It seems now all the media is doing is advertising VPNs as a work around and letting people know there’s plenty of porn sites if you look around.

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Sites that are meant to be conducting age verification are not allowed to publicise ways of evading age verification - which obviously includes VPNs. It’s not a topic ban per se, it’s a ban on evading the law, which is a fairly common principle in UK legislation (e.g. see what happens if you get caught with a speed camera detector in your car).

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You still get adverts on Youtube? :shocked:

I had no idea as I don't get any ;) :naughty:

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DuckDuckGo has been pushing its own browser a lot recently. It has a built-in VPN (for $$$ … though the browser itself is free).

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Don't worry folks, eventually Netflix, Fakebook, X, Insterfake, Prime, YouTube, Twitch, Whatsapp, basically any website that can have information including this very site will be blocked from being accessed in the UK as the Government will say it has "Harmful" content on it.

Welcome to the new North Korea, get ready for daily prayers and pledges to our Supreme Leader Keir Starmer or when another party get in, who ever is in charge of that party.

I have already been asked if I am going to stop uploading music to a channel on YouTube that I run, because the UK Government may find the lyrics in the tracks "Harmful and Dangerous".

I might need to start a business in blankets and rugs, people are going to need them for sitting outside staring at the sky because they certainly won't be watching TV, reading books, listening to music or audio books etc because there will be nothing left that someone has not found to be offensive or harmful.

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If they are itchy blankets, then they need to be banned :)

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You won't be able to ban them if they're made from other recycled itchy blankets, we're all going to save the planet by sending everything we don't want back to China, where they will recycle it into even more crap we don't want :D

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Well the censorship is already starting.

A film company who posted their film to YouTube and X (Twitter) has had it blocked on X in the UK unless you have verified your age, only people over the age of 18 can watch it, but people over 16 years of age are going to be allowed to vote without being able to see alternative perspectives than those that our dictatorship believe is acceptable.

The film is called "The Agenda: Their Vision - Your Future"

Description taken from the website for the film(Documentary).

"The Agenda: Their Vision, Your Future examines the digital prison which awaits us if we do not push back right now. How your food, energy, money, travel and even your access to the internet could be limited and controlled; how financial power is strangling democracy and how global institutions like the World Health Organisation are commandeered to champion ideological and fiscal objectives.

The centrepiece is man-made climate change and with it, the race to Net Zero. Both are encapsulated in the United Nations and its Agenda 2030. A force for good? Or “a blank cheque for totalitarian global control”?"



This goes against the agenda and narrative of the UK Government both Tory and Labour, hence it has been labelled "Harmful Content" to anyone under 18.

Even if you are over 18, unless you have verified your age on X, you will not be able to watch it without a VPN on X.

https://x.com/OracleFilmsUK/status/1930356088404357464



Welcome to North Korea people, where according to their state media say they win the Olympics, World cup's etc all the time and the whole world is falling apart whilst North Korea is flourishing.

This country is doomed, to many softies and perpetually offended are making the decisions, instead of using common sense!

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Settings and Privacy > Your Account > Account info.

Set your location to somewhere outside the UK. There are reports of content being geoblocked on the basis of this setting, in which case a VPN won’t help you when using X.

For the purposes of Elon Musk, I am resident in the Falkland Islands. :D

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Page doesn't exist when I used the link.

https://x.com/OracleFilmsUK/status/1930356088404357464

I'm not a twitter X user though, but it shouldn't make a difference as I can (could) see most links to things on there but not any further comments.

Incidentally, I use Discord (for gaming) and I see no changes, and often follow Reddit links for information, which again still allow access to non registered viewers . . . for now.

Firmly in Damiens camp regarding anything the Govt. don't want you to see (or enquire about) will be rendered invisible.

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Ditto, looks like someone deleted it.

TBH, it sounds rather like a lunatic fringe film to me.

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Didn't sound like anything I'd go looking for, but no reason to block it surely :shrug: