Another rule for thee policy no business worth their salt can operate without Vpn tech so colour me surprised they get an exemption. Even China can’t keep a handle on it… China! We can’t even keep state secrets from travelling around the circle line. It’s another overreach that serves 0 progress whist wasting more money and resources that could go to something more beneficial. No vpns ok I’ll just rent or setup a remote computer and run wireguard or friendly wireguard aka Tailscale.
So bored of clueless legislation from short minded techno morons and sadly it won’t go away with the boomers like we thought.
Every generation thinks the problems will go away when all the ignorant, reactionary old idiots die out, then half of them grow up to be ignorant, reactionary old idiots. The same with rich, self-serving assholes. They start out looking pretty normal so you don’t see them until they emerge mid-life from their cocoon of ruthlessly acquired wealth.
UK Govt. to hold three-month consultation to improve kids’ safety online
The United Kingdom, or rather the Oceania Kingdom (1984 reference), will come after every service available on the internet. They’re definitely not doing this to protect kids, it’s to suppress our voices. We lose all of our privacy and anonymity the moment we give them our face and data.
Most people use VPNs to bypass state-imposed restrictions or anonymity but if you’d have to give your data and face to the government before you access the VPN, it kind of just negates the reason why one would use a VPN.
This reminds me of the news I once read about amateur radio operators who were arrested and are facing death penalty. The government accused them for ‘espionage’ and ‘treason’ without any evidences.
One of the Belarusian HAM operator posted on Reddit: “State propaganda unironically claims these men were ‘pumping state secrets out of the air’ using nothing more than basic $25 Baofeng handhelds and consumer-grade SDR dongles. Any operator knows that hardware like this is physically incapable of cracking the modern AES-256 digital encryption used by government security forces. It is a technical fraud, yet they are being charged with High Treason and Espionage. The punishment in Belarus for these charges is life in prison or the death penalty.”
I would not be surprised if I ever any other news like that from the U.K. in a few months or years.
The moment we give our face or our data to companies and the government, it’s no longer our face.
2026 is gonna be 1984.
