Online Safety Bill Etc

Its increasingly worrying just how incredibly stupid these people are.

When are they going to learn that people will NOT just give their IDs to random companies to "check".

Once again, people will just bypass this by using more "dodgy" VPNs (or just make your own, I have two of my own).
Plus of course, as I have said repeatedly, you dont need a VPN for browsing, you can just use a proxy server (public, paid, or your own).

[Carth]

Originally Posted by Paul

Its increasingly worrying just how incredibly stupid these people are.

When are they going to learn that people will NOT just give their IDs to random companies to "check".

Once again, people will just bypass this by using more "dodgy" VPNs (or just make your own, I have two of my own).
Plus of course, as I have said repeatedly, you dont need a VPN for browsing, you can just use a proxy server (public, paid, or your own).

Suicidal Government, it's almost like they KNOW they're incompetent, and are pushing to actively lose the next (or an early) election and get back to the easier snide sniping from the back benches

Originally Posted by Carth

Suicidal Government, it's almost like they KNOW they're incompetent, and are pushing to actively lose the next (or an early) election and get back to the easier snide sniping from the back benches

Anyway, enough about the Conservatives 21 months ago...

[Sirius]

You can now pickup a free copy of 1984 by visiting the Labour party press office any day of the week. Facial age verification and a copy of your DNA and social media record will be required on arrival

[RichardCoulter]

The desire to limit the use of VPN's to stop people bypassing restrictions (and using other countries for streaming purposes) appears to be spreading around the world:

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-pr...ts-are-worried

Experts said to be worried.

[Stephen]

Experts are worried, lmao. Of course they are. Their attempts to control via age restrictions are meaningless as so easily bypassed. They cannot ban VPNs however.

[Carth]

You should never take notice of experts, it's almost as crazy as using Facebook as the best source of 'up to date' information on football or politics.

Just look what 'experts' have done to us over the last 10 years or so

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Carth

You should never take notice of experts, it's almost as crazy as using Facebook as the best source of 'up to date' information on football or politics.

Just look what 'experts' have done to us over the last 10 years or so

I thought we were told not to listen to experts around 10 years ago...

[Carth]

Obviously there needs to be regular reminders

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Carth

Obviously there needs to be regular reminders

yep you know how dangerous listening can be

Once again, just utter nonsense.
How many time does this need to be said, you cannot just "monitor" what a VPN is being used for.
These morons really need to get a dictionary and look up "Private".

Saying its illegal to use one for certain purposes is meaningless, its like saying you cannot smoke in your house anymore, short of coming into your house to watching you, know one is going to know.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Paul

Once again, just utter nonsense.
How many time does this need to be said, you cannot just "monitor" what a VPN is being used for.
These morons really need to get a dictionary and look up "Private".

Saying its illegal to use one for certain purposes is meaningless, its like saying you cannot smoke in your house anymore, short of coming into your house to watching you, know one is going to know.

There is actually a country (can't remember which) that banned smoking indoors, including in one's own home! In the UK I know of several landlords that prohibit their tenants from smoking in their homes by putting this in their tenancy agreements.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

There is actually a country (can't remember which) that banned smoking indoors, including in one's own home!

The point was, that you can legislate it. But not enforce it.

[damien c]

Originally Posted by Paul

Once again, just utter nonsense.
How many time does this need to be said, you cannot just "monitor" what a VPN is being used for.
These morons really need to get a dictionary and look up "Private".

Saying its illegal to use one for certain purposes is meaningless, its like saying you cannot smoke in your house anymore, short of coming into your house to watching you, know one is going to know.

I think, although I cannot prove it, that certain departments of Governments etc do have the ability to monitor what traffic is being transmitted via VPN's, the problem for them is, it's illegal unless they can prove it's "Terror" related as to why they snooped iirc.

Let's not also forget, unless you have found a way to stop it and send no information to Microspy, then Windows 8 and up all send's information to Microspy regardless of if you have a VPN or not, and all the Government's need to do is get that information.

A VPN and even a Tunnel is not protection in the way that most think it is, but it's more of a "infuriation device" and it's not difficult for them to be blocked, banned, black listed or what ever word you wanted to use to describe them.


The simple fact is, this country was shafted by the Conservatives when they started this whole process, regardless of whether they implemented it or not, and then shafted by Labour who implemented it and are trying to use it, to control every aspect of your life, from movement to speech.


More rumours are coming out that you will have to provide a photo/live scan in order to use search engines, make purchases online, sign up to services like Sky, Virgin etc online, basically even to open a web browser they will want a photo or live scan.

Anyone know what the entry criteria is to North Korea as I would like to go to somewhere that actually still has some freedoms, at least freedom to breath without needing to provide a photo for each breath

[Carth]

All this stuff . . in fact this Government . . is similar to her indoors, as in when she gets something in her head, no matter how much evidence there is to say she's wrong, she still believes she's right . . . until eventually she isn't . . . at which time she goes on a month long mardy arse strop