• BeerEnjoyer@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    The noose tightens. After this crap was implemented in the UK, half of the country should be up in flames in protests. But it wasn’t so other countries took note and felt confident doing the same thing.

  • pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr
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    17 hours ago

    The headline is vert clickbaity : it does not affect VPN users (the law forbids age-gated websites from promoting VPNs as a circumvention), and the whole article is just an ad for VPNs

    • snipingsnipe@piefed.social
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      10 hours ago

      Tbh I would generally welcome a VPN-industrial-complex as long as it doesn’t result in a small ring of big names lobbying for systematic monopolistic dominance as to crush anything that doesn’t require PII… but I’m sure commercial and state interests would converge :/

    • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Didn’t read the article, as you said it’s just an ad for VPNs. But one way this affects VPN users is that now you can’t VPN into Italy to use a service without hitting the age verification prompt. That just sucks!

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        5 hours ago

        This would have been a (if not the only) good point to make in the article considering the title. But I guess this would have taken space away from ads

  • IllNess@infosec.pub
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    20 hours ago

    This is sickening. Restricting access should be done at the ISP level and should be opt-in for those with kids. A password can be set by the parent.

    We all really know this is about control.