18-08-2025, 13:05
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Does Virgin Media allow the use of VPNs on its system?
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I’ve used them for both work and home use, and nobody seemed to mind…
There’s this info about them on their website.
https://www.virginmedia.com/the-edit.../what-is-a-vpn
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Using a VPN with your Virgin Media broadband is a smart way to boost your online privacy and security. Virgin Media’s superfast broadband supports most VPN services, so you can stream, browse, and work securely with minimal speed loss.
Virgin Media’s broadband speeds work well with most premium VPN services. Just make sure to disable Web Safe’s “Child Safe”, which may block some VPNs by default. Once set up, you can enjoy a faster, safer internet experience at home and on the go.
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18-08-2025, 13:41
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by Hugh
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Just make sure to disable Web Safe’s “Child Safe”, which may block some VPNs by default
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Sometimes you see something that makes you really wonder if there's a point to anything 
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18-08-2025, 14:08
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by Carth
Sometimes you see something that makes you really wonder if there's a point to anything |
Watch nords current tv ad to see the original idea for using it.
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18-08-2025, 16:46
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Does Virgin Media allow the use of VPNs on its system?
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Why wouldn't they?
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18-08-2025, 17:19
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Does Virgin Media allow the use of VPNs on its system?
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I am using one to post this reply and i am on Virgin media
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18-08-2025, 17:27
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Do I care what you think
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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I am using one to post this reply and i am on Virgin media
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So am I
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18-08-2025, 19:07
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by Itshim
So am I |
Ditto, VM don’t ‘support’ VPNs but that just means that if you have an issue with one, VM won’t help you - fine!
The 'not supporting’ is sometimes misunderstood as meaning that they don’t allow or ban them. And considering that some VPN protocols run over https; I’m really not sure how they could even if they wanted to!
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18-08-2025, 19:43
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Does Virgin Media allow the use of VPNs on its system?
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Of course it does. 
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19-08-2025, 10:35
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
From the BBC... 'Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo
So parents, make sure you ask your kids to stop using VPNs. I'm sure that'll work because asking your kids not to view porn without one didn't..... 
What a joke.
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19-08-2025, 11:02
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
The first item here is with the Children's Commissioner who has updated her report from two years ago concerning the exposure of pornography to children.
Key points:
- 50% of all children will have seen hardcore porn by the age of 13 or 14. This includes non consensual sex and strangulation.
- 25% will have seen this by the age of 11. Some have actually become addicted to watching pornography.
- The youngest age reported as seeing porn was aged just 6.
- This is normalising inappropriate behaviour themselves
- The site where the majority of porn is seen by underage people is X/Twitter by stumbling across it or it being shown to them by other children. The second worst is Snapchat.T
- Headteachers say that what children see on social media is second on the list of what they are most concerned about.
- This data was collected before the age verification requirement of the Online Safety Act came into force.
- Children (respondents were aged 16 to 24) say that one of the best things that parents can do is to talk to them about what they see online.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_radio_fourfm
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19-08-2025, 11:05
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
You missed out 'Exposure to pornography has increased since the introduction of UK rules to protect the public online.'
https://www.theguardian.com/society/...t-commissioner
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19-08-2025, 11:08
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by peanut
From the BBC... 'Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo
So parents, make sure you ask your kids to stop using VPNs. I'm sure that'll work because asking your kids not to view porn without one didn't.....
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I don't think that the idea is to ask children to stop using a VPN, but to take proactive steps to stop them.
The Children's Commissioner said today that people accessing porn in the UK had severely reduced, but that the use of VPN's had severely increased. As a result she is to recommend to the Government that age verification is extended to VPN's.
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I dont recall her saying that.
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19-08-2025, 11:20
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
I don't think that the idea is to ask children to stop using a VPN, but to take proactive steps to stop them.
The Children's Commissioner said today that people accessing porn in the UK had severely reduced, but that the use of VPN's had severely increased. As a result she is to recommend to the Government that age verification is extended to VPN's.
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I dont recall her saying that.
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Do you not see yet, Richard, that the Online Safety Act simply isn’t working, just as we all said it wouldn’t.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
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Thanks, Hugh.
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Originally Posted by jem
Ditto, VM don’t ‘support’ VPNs but that just means that if you have an issue with one, VM won’t help you - fine!
The 'not supporting’ is sometimes misunderstood as meaning that they don’t allow or ban them. And considering that some VPN protocols run over https; I’m really not sure how they could even if they wanted to!
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I certainly read something about this a while ago, so I expect that perhaps it was something like that.
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19-08-2025, 12:02
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
No idea if kids today are anything like we were when I was a grotty insipid rebellious 12 yr old, but when we were told not to do something you could bet your bestest wining conker that we'd go try it to see why it wasn't allowed
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19-08-2025, 12:59
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
As a result she is to recommend to the Government that age verification is extended to VPN's.
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LOL, they really do have no clue, thats like saying age check a kettle before you plug it in.
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