If the UK sets the precedent with the Online Safety Act, not just Government photo ID but live, repeated facial recognition checks via a webcam or smartphone to ensure the person is who they say they are from 2025. Safeguards will be put in place to prevent people putting a photo in front of a camera or just handing a device over to an underage person once the initial check has been done.
It's also not just going to apply to pornography but anything deemed not "safe for kids". The inconvenience of having to repeatedly check your identity to play an 18 rated video game is going to lead to console manufacturers bringing back the likes of Kinect and mandating the PlayStation Camera so you don't have the inconvenience of having to repeatedly verify your ID via a smartphone to continue playing the game. Then again, who wants a camera in every device that could be used for surveillance inside the living rooms and bedrooms of every private home?
In terms of VPN's, they're on borrowed time. Several countries have banned them and won't allow payments by either payment processors or transferring fiat currency to crypto. The Labour Party planned to implement an amendment in the Online Safety Bill to ban them but it didn't happen. Labour looks very likely to win the next General Election so will be able to implement a new law banning them and any funding mechanisms.
And the Conservative party with Labour support look likely to eventually go down the road of banning pornography and nudity outside of the bedroom/bathroom outright. The current Health Secretary was recently on BBC Radio 4 declaring a porn pandemic in society and showing her desire to ban it for women's and children's safety. Labour agrees with that stance.
Even if they make vpns not work, most countries still only block sites via dns, so unless they block sites some other way. It should be quite easy to still visit sites which wont comply with these ridiculous demands like face cams lol. And plenty of sites you usually cant even find with google anymore because of copyright stuff. Like planetsuzy.org.
But the UK is a good example of peak clownworld hopefully the rest of the EU will not be that retarded.
Banning vpns doesn't work as it is core tech on how banking networks work. They will not migrate to any "state approved" tech as banking tech is so ancient that it will throw a hissy fit if you even dare look funny at the ancient server in the corner. Same with banning encryption because storing CC info in plain text is a wonderful idea.
It's likely they'll ban residential VPN use outright and business VPN use will be restricted to businesses and corporations which have strictly enforced policies on Internet usage which will certainly ban 18+ material.
But of course, don't underestimate the ineptitude of politicians and their inability to understand the technology. They tend to react to knee jerk lobbyists with an agenda.
You cannot regulate vpn traffic as it just looks like normal encrypted traffic. The only reason that sites can detect a vpn is being used is because the traffic comes from a known vpn host. Any system can function as a vpn with few lines of code. They had more success banning alcohol than they will ever have with banning vpns
If the UK sets the precedent with the Online Safety Act, not just Government photo ID but live, repeated facial recognition checks via a webcam or smartphone to ensure the person is who they say they are from 2025. Safeguards will be put in place to prevent people putting a photo in front of a camera or just handing a device over to an underage person once the initial check has been done.
It's also not just going to apply to pornography but anything deemed not "safe for kids". The inconvenience of having to repeatedly check your identity to play an 18 rated video game is going to lead to console manufacturers bringing back the likes of Kinect and mandating the PlayStation Camera so you don't have the inconvenience of having to repeatedly verify your ID via a smartphone to continue playing the game. Then again, who wants a camera in every device that could be used for surveillance inside the living rooms and bedrooms of every private home?
In terms of VPN's, they're on borrowed time. Several countries have banned them and won't allow payments by either payment processors or transferring fiat currency to crypto. The Labour Party planned to implement an amendment in the Online Safety Bill to ban them but it didn't happen. Labour looks very likely to win the next General Election so will be able to implement a new law banning them and any funding mechanisms.
And the Conservative party with Labour support look likely to eventually go down the road of banning pornography and nudity outside of the bedroom/bathroom outright. The current Health Secretary was recently on BBC Radio 4 declaring a porn pandemic in society and showing her desire to ban it for women's and children's safety. Labour agrees with that stance.
The UK never fails to be peak clown world.
Even if they make vpns not work, most countries still only block sites via dns, so unless they block sites some other way. It should be quite easy to still visit sites which wont comply with these ridiculous demands like face cams lol. And plenty of sites you usually cant even find with google anymore because of copyright stuff. Like planetsuzy.org.
But the UK is a good example of peak clownworld hopefully the rest of the EU will not be that retarded.
Banning vpns doesn't work as it is core tech on how banking networks work. They will not migrate to any "state approved" tech as banking tech is so ancient that it will throw a hissy fit if you even dare look funny at the ancient server in the corner. Same with banning encryption because storing CC info in plain text is a wonderful idea.
It's likely they'll ban residential VPN use outright and business VPN use will be restricted to businesses and corporations which have strictly enforced policies on Internet usage which will certainly ban 18+ material.
But of course, don't underestimate the ineptitude of politicians and their inability to understand the technology. They tend to react to knee jerk lobbyists with an agenda.
You cannot regulate vpn traffic as it just looks like normal encrypted traffic. The only reason that sites can detect a vpn is being used is because the traffic comes from a known vpn host. Any system can function as a vpn with few lines of code. They had more success banning alcohol than they will ever have with banning vpns
If the state wants to ban or limit their use, they will and they have other options to use.
The stupid laws needs to go and the idiots that put it in place exposed for being cunts.
It isn't even a law in one country or state.It's across all of them.