VPNs must not face the chop 🚫
Next week the UK House of Lords will debate whether VPNs undermine the Online Safety Act.
Banning or blocking VPNs will shatter security, privacy and free expression in a self-defeating attempt to make the unworkable workable.
Read our briefing ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #VPN #VPNs #privacy #cybersecurity #freespeech #ukpolitics #ukpol #ageverification
They’re thinking too small. It’s not just VPNs. The whole architecture of the Internet undermines the OSA. So long as people are able to casually send IP packets to places deemed unsafe, we will remain trapped in this hellish digital nightmare where UK citizens can communicate freely with whoever they please around the world.
You joke but if you think the aim isn’t bigger… I wouldn’t be surprised if astroturfed discourse around decentralised platforms being unsafe because they can’t be “moderated” surfaces in the next few years (months?). Mastodon have already had to explain why they literally cannot add age verification in the UK. They’ll just ban the whole concept if they can’t get the control. The free web is being reigned in.
They’re thinking too small. It’s not just VPNs. The whole architecture of the Internet undermines the OSA. So long as people are able to casually send IP packets to places deemed unsafe, we will remain trapped in this hellish digital nightmare where UK citizens can communicate freely with whoever they please around the world.
You joke but if you think the aim isn’t bigger… I wouldn’t be surprised if astroturfed discourse around decentralised platforms being unsafe because they can’t be “moderated” surfaces in the next few years (months?). Mastodon have already had to explain why they literally cannot add age verification in the UK. They’ll just ban the whole concept if they can’t get the control. The free web is being reigned in.
It seems they don’t understand the original use of DARPAnet.
Or more likely, they do understand and want to destroy it.