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Prominent backbench MP Sarah Champion launched a campaign against VPNs previously, saying: “My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.

"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.” And the Labour Party said there were “gaps” in the bill that needed to be amended.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah, businesses will not accept this. Remote work and remote connections rely on VPN for ALL KINDS OF SHIT. If you must adhere to some kinds of government compliance, it is even MANDATED BY THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT. Explain to me how the hell that is going to just poof and not cause all kinds of problems.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 53 minutes ago

You don't get it. They will just force VPNs to black list sites. Business users will happily do it because they don't care about porn anyway. Any VPN which doesn't enforce UK laws will be blocked at the ISP level.

[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Individual customer VPN providers get banned, corporate VPN providers not banned. It's quite simple really.

Or are you expecting the average Joe to spin up his own VPN server?

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

And how do you expect that to work on a technical level?