The all new "Gee I never saw this coming" thread

[Grumpmeister]

So the new internet safety bill is now in effect and it's immediately led to a bumper crop of new customers for VPN service providers. I'm sure that none of us saw that coming......no nobody.....nobody at all.   

Proton, the Swiss-based company behind the top VPN app, said it had experienced a more than 1,800 per cent increase in daily sign-ups from UK-based users after new age verification rules took effect on Friday.

Nord said there had been a 1,000 per cent increase in UK purchases of VPN subscriptions since before the rules took effect.

 


https://www.ft.com/content/356674b0-9f1d-4f95-b1d5-f27570379a9b

[Steve]

Quite

And there's also borrowing the credit card of Mum or Dad to defeat the ID check

The intentions were good but the plan was shite

[Barman]

Unfortunately, it is clear that the current crop of pollies are utterly useless... 

Few of them have any idea of business or life in general having travelled a cotton wool buffered life from school to uni (PPE obvs.) then straight into politics.

They have the ridiculous, unwavering belief that if you make something 'a law' then that thing will happen. They simply don't understand consequences, options or incentives.

This is just the most recent example... 

[Steve]

Nah it's the age old unequal struggle problem.

Essentially only one person can design a system but it immediately faces a million people trying to find ways to defeat it. 

And to be fair the aim of this legislation wasn't to stop adults viewing porn whether by direct or VPN access, the intent was to stop 8 year olds seeing it.  Probably need to place restrictions on VPN providers giving free geo displacing services.

 

[apc2010]

So the new internet safety bill is now in effect and it's immediately led to a bumper crop of new customers for VPN service providers. I'm sure that none of us saw that coming......no nobody.....nobody at all.   

Proton, the Swiss-based company behind the top VPN app, said it had experienced a more than 1,800 per cent increase in daily sign-ups from UK-based users after new age verification rules took effect on Friday.

Nord said there had been a 1,000 per cent increase in UK purchases of VPN subscriptions since before the rules took effect.

 


https://www.ft.com/content/356674b0-9f1d-4f95-b1d5-f27570379a9b

 

We used to use a VPN thingy to watch UK television here ..everyone did ..one was even called ..expat sheild …

[Grumpmeister]

So how long does everyone think it will be before these clueless arseholes announce they are banning VPN's 

[Barman]

[Steve]

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/42tPsAbTnq4?si=n2xKObp0oVjT5GOt" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>

How ironic that the maker of that video is making a false statement.  Just read the paragraph he linked to https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/179

'(c)at the time of sending it, the person intended the message, or the information in it, to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience, and

(d)the person has no reasonable excuse for sending the message.'

[Steve]

So how long does everyone think it will be before these clueless arseholes announce they are banning VPN's 

Forever

But allowing 8 year old children use them to watch violent porn really needs to be addressed somehow.   

[Nick]

I heard on the news that this was a piece of Tory legislation with a delayed implementation date 

[Steve]

I heard on the news that this was a piece of Tory legislation with a delayed implementation date 

It was.

Farage is incandescent because he and his mob have said they'll repeal the whole of the legislation and it was of course pointed out that would be just what the Savilles of this world would want.

[Barman]

I heard on the news that this was a piece of Tory legislation with a delayed implementation date 

It was.

Farage is incandescent because he and his mob have said they'll repeal the whole of the legislation and it was of course pointed out that would be just what the Savilles of this world would want.

We'll re-visit your assertion that it is all about protecting the kiddies in six months... 

[Steve]

Who said it was all about protecting children.  Not the authors or movers of the Act.

But Farage and mob say they want to repeal it all incl the sections protecting children.  Now they're upset that people are asking them to own such a shit proposal.

[Barman]

Who said it was all about protecting children.  Not the authors or movers of the Act.

But Farage and mob say they want to repeal it all incl the sections protecting children.  Now they're upset that people are asking them to own such a shit proposal.

The government has said exactly that...

...and it seems to be your opinion too...? 

Quite

And there's also borrowing the credit card of Mum or Dad to defeat the ID check

The intentions were good but the plan was shite

So waht was 'the intention' if not to stop kiddies watching porn...?

And to be fair the aim of this legislation wasn't to stop adults viewing porn whether by direct or VPN access, the intent was to stop 8 year olds seeing it. Probably need to place restrictions on VPN providers giving free geo displacing services.

Oh...

[Steve]

So I should have said that piece of the legislation but frankly I thought that was obvious.

Farage and mob say they will repeal every single part of it incl the parts protecting children, as one of their first acts on taking office.  Inane and classic simpleton's throw baby out with bathwater approach to problems.