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Originally Posted by Paul
What makes you think the UK has any jurisdiction to do such things to anyone in other countries ?
Since its not the only use for VPNs (by a long way) parents are unlikely to do any such thing.
Platforms dont need to promote/encourage the use of VPN's, people already know about them anyway.
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The UK has jurisdiction over sites based in other countries that are available in the UK because Parliament passed a law saying so.
Those that don't comply with the law face sanctions that may make it difficult/impossible to carry on. This and persuading foreign governments aside*, I don't think that the UK could close down a site based abroad and they would be geoblocked to those in the UK.
* Other countries are bringing in similar laws, so there may be reciprocal agreements.
Interestingly, Pornhub made themselves unavailable to some American states that introduced similar laws, but have accepted age verification in the UK.
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Originally Posted by idi banashapan
The very existence of the Online Safety Bill is a response to something many shy away from saying plainly... too many parents are failing to protect their children online. Internet providers already offer free safety filtering, and both desktop and mobile operating systems include built in parental controls and screen time management tools.
So why the need for legislation? It's not a stretch to suggest that many parents either aren’t bothering to configure these protections, or worse, are deliberately disabling them Perhaps for convenience or out of misplaced trust. The bill steps in where personal responsibility has too often been left at the login screen. And once these new steps are seen to be so easily circumvented with things like the aforesaid free VNPs for example, no doubt the response will be to increase the measures and reductions of personal freedoms even further.
The problem isn't so much children accessing porn, it's the parents not preventing them in the first place. Probably the same who complain about the 'nanny state'.
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Sadly, I think you make a good point. The statistics for the ages of children accessing porn is shocking.