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The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit

www.theguardian.com The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz

From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

It is time to move to darknets like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veilid

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the brits really need to learn from the french how to protest. it's been nearly a month and i haven't heard of even a measly car being set on fire, just one petition that got a reply akin to "lol, nah". the french would've set a car on fire for less is all i'm saying
- With regards to this most people are just ignoring the law. VPN use has gone through the roof.
  
  yeah and their government is planning on restricting VPN use because of that, they're not going to stop being dickheads, brits need to get their voices heard sooner rather than later
  
  They've said nothing of the sort.
  
  One backbench MP said something about it.
  
  Ah ok. That makes sense where it came from then.
  
  i will admit, i do not remember where i got that info from, i thought it was part of the reply to the petition that was making rounds a week or so ago but i'm not sure now
  
  I think there was a lot of speculation and jokes about that's what would happen next from people on here and other places.
- They also get arrested for peaceful protests and stay silent: https://www.npr.org/2025/08/11/nx-s1-5498378/uk-police-say-more-than-500-people-arrested-in-pro-palestinian-events-over-weekend
  
  Southport was a tinderbox, but the current trends if you're actually from the UK shows that there's a bonfire incoming.
  You only have to watch a couple of YouTube live streams.....wait. Tomorrow I wait for age gating to see if Google is that.....nefarious in stopping me watching YTP vids without a passport.
  Ima gonna giggle
- We used to know, even in the face of state atrocities: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_bombing_and_arson_campaign https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%E2%80%931985_United_Kingdom_miners%2527_strike
  Sadly, Thatcher broke the miners and we’ve never been right since.
- There has been a petition. And it has received the aforementioned "lol no" response. The thing is though after the French set the capital on fire the age of retirement still went up, nothing changed.
  Anyway, all we have to do is use a VPN to get around it and wait for the inevitable data leak, then the whole thing will collapse under the weight of its own stupidity.
  
  It’s cute you think VPNs will survive this.
  
  and that this thing will collapse
  
  This is all theatre. They know they have no legitimate reason to ban VPNs. Their justification for all of this is protect the children if they start banning VPNs they're going to start getting asked some incredibly awkward questions about how that's going to work.
  
  Yup they just want more control, they know they can't have total control. So why ban VPNs, only a fraction of people uses them.
  
  Most of the people who use VPNs use them for work as well. It would be an impossible task to craft a law in such a way that didn't ban VPNs for business use, but did for private use, other than to just come out and say that.
- the brits really need to learn from the french how to protest
  Where were all the protests to this: https://techinformed.com/france-enforces-age-verification-law-adult-sites/ ?
  This is what you get at the moment when you access pornhub from a French IP:
- the brits really need to learn from the french how to protest.
  You mean like how the french aren't protesting their country's support of Chat Control? At least I can't find any information on them doing so.
  
  @Pamasich @themachinestops @shneancy usually #france protests against anything
  french #farmer spray #public buildings with #cow #shit
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp22VgNiiWc
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-farmer-protest-manure-toulouse/ https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1844254/french-farmers-protest-macron-high-tax

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