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Old 21-08-2025, 16:11   #1400
RichardCoulter
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc

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Originally Posted by Sirius View Post
The biggest hurdle will be that they cannot force any company outside the uk to do what they want. If I was running a VPN company in lets say Iceland and someone from the UK Government told me I must set up age verification on my product I would tell them where to go as they have no power to make me do it. Now think about this, how many of the VPN,s providers being used in this country are based in this country. The Government is losing a war they created and they will lose. They have created the biggest uptake in VPN usage this country has ever seen and it is still increasing. I have helped many of my friends setup their VPN,s
If they decided to bring in age verification for VPN's I imagine that they'd treat those that don't comply in the same way that they say they will treat porn sites that refuse to comply ie ban UK companies from doing business with them and make the VPN site unavailable to those in the UK.

I suppose that a legitimate VPN could be used to access a proscribed VPN, but there wouldn't be much point
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