22-08-2025, 07:15
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
Interesting piece regarding 4chan and their non payment of fines
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq68j5g2nr1o
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22-08-2025, 10:12
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
If you have a UK account, using a UK VPN when abroad to watch UK content is OK. What I think Netflix and others seek to stop is a UK account using a "foreign" VPN to watch "foreign" content not available in the UK.
And the government could stop access to foreign VPN's by blocking access to the foreign VPN access points from the UK. It is likely a losing battle unless we go the whole China methodology. You could likely do something similar at home, block access to foreign VPN points at the router. And if you don't let junior install stuff on their phone they can't set one up locally anyway.
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22-08-2025, 10:27
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
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Well that's opened my eyes, I've always thought 4chan was one of the hundreds of TV channels showing adverts and not much else.
Probably an easy assumption to make for someone with very little interest in TV viewing and even less interest in the goings on with social media platforms 
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22-08-2025, 17:19
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
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Think this says it all.
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22-08-2025, 18:57
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by Sirius
Do you fully understand the way VPN's work ?
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Not fully, no. How do they work?
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Originally Posted by Paul
Thats unlikely to be legal (or practical), as the UK has already found out with Apple.
Also, you dont need to buy a VPN, plenty of free ones about that you just directly download.
Plus you can set up your own if you want, the software to do so is freely available.
Same with proxy servers, you can (as I do) just make your own with freely available common software.
I really dont understand your motives here, its like you want us all to be under totalatarian state control, ask the North Koreans how good that is.
[ Oh, and I read yesterday that a spokeperson said there were no plans to control VPNs, just clueless people saying someone should ].
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It was a hypothetical answer to a hypothetical question that isn't even being proposed by the Government. You are right in saying that this is merely a suggestion (by the Children's Commissioner).
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22-08-2025, 19:13
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Not fully, no. How do they work?
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All you need to do is watch this, then you may understand why those on this forum say the Government is losing the VPN battle. The more they claim they will stop them the more people will use them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-U7kqizKH8
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23-08-2025, 08:23
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cf.mega poster
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by Sirius
All you need to do is watch this, then you may understand why those on this forum say the Government is losing the VPN battle. The more they claim they will stop them the more people will use them.
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Thanks, i'll take a look.
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