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
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.
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.