The government has now said it will not limit VPNs, citing evidence that relatively few children use them to bypass age checks.
But the proposal always seemed technically incoherent. Blocking commercial providers would not stop self-hosted WireGuard, OpenVPN, SSH tunnels, proxies, or traffic made to resemble ordinary HTTPS. Proper enforcement would mean invasive inspection at ISP level, with plenty of collateral damage for legitimate security and business use.
Was this a genuine policy option that collapsed once it met technical scrutiny, or was it mostly political signalling from the start?
Why do you use so much AI content?
The images? I’m a system admin, not a graphic designer lol
I would rather see clip-art from Microsoft Office 2003 than slop.
Just don’t use an image then
Yeah, a AI-gen header image makes you wary of the content (is it slop or not?).
Even if you have to, at least try a little and let it make something that looks non-AI.
Lemmy users would reject the cure for cancer if AI made it.
This will not be the final chapter on VPNs. People in government change - the UK is ushering in the 100th PM in the last decade this week. Somebody is going to scream “think of the children” again and all reason dissipates faster than you can say “haven’t we been here before?” It’s like chat control on the continent. These zombies are eternal.
