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UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill
(www.birminghammail.co.uk)
Freenet, I2P and Tor will be the new refuge
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
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Banning VPNs is quite a serious move.
The UK government doth protest too much about protecting the kids. It’s obvious that this whole thing is just an attempt to increase the surveillance of the UK population.
Will the next step be banning VPS then? Because that's what will happen: if you ban VPNs (good luck with that lol), people will just connect to a VPS in a less stupid country and exit from there.
I hope they start looking at TOR too, that should be really fun.
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I though the UK was a Western democracy. What the hell are you guys doing over there?
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China 1.5
labour really doesn't want people to access lgbtq safe spaces and resources huh?
Oh, that would be hilarious to watch.
I could definitely see myself setting up a Wireguard VPN only allowing connections to a bunch of porn sites here on my home fiber in Sweden. Should make a nice little side profit.