the difference here is the stipulation about vpns. by the sound of it, it's not enough to simply region block entire countries. you have to assume any VPN traffic you get could possibly come from the UK and therefore implement their age verification laws.
I would say there needs to be an international treaty on the internet, because it's bullshit that one country can enforce their laws on citizens of another. however, knowing the state of the UN, I'd rather that not happen.
it's bullshit that one country can enforce their laws on citizens of another.
Well, they can't really. Even extraterritorial laws require a nexus to the country enforcing them. They could try and hold a foreign national responsible for UK law, but they're not likely to get any cooperation from other countries, which is required to make these sorts of things work, and they would just open themselves up to retaliation.
I can't think of a single country that would tolerate a foreign power converting its citizens who maintain websites into unpaid employees of the UK government by trying to compel them to sleuth out whether an IP address is a VPN, and where it ultimately points back to. It's probably beyond the technical means of most websites, and certainly not financially feasible even if you could do it.
I imagine a non-UK government's answer to this problem would be to just direct everyone to block traffic to the UK and that they will swat down any attempts to identify or charge their citizens under UK law.
There's already a precedent. When the EU enacted their privacy shitshow laws a lot of US news sites simply blocked visitors from the EU.
the difference here is the stipulation about vpns. by the sound of it, it's not enough to simply region block entire countries. you have to assume any VPN traffic you get could possibly come from the UK and therefore implement their age verification laws.
I would say there needs to be an international treaty on the internet, because it's bullshit that one country can enforce their laws on citizens of another. however, knowing the state of the UN, I'd rather that not happen.
Well, they can't really. Even extraterritorial laws require a nexus to the country enforcing them. They could try and hold a foreign national responsible for UK law, but they're not likely to get any cooperation from other countries, which is required to make these sorts of things work, and they would just open themselves up to retaliation.
I can't think of a single country that would tolerate a foreign power converting its citizens who maintain websites into unpaid employees of the UK government by trying to compel them to sleuth out whether an IP address is a VPN, and where it ultimately points back to. It's probably beyond the technical means of most websites, and certainly not financially feasible even if you could do it.
I imagine a non-UK government's answer to this problem would be to just direct everyone to block traffic to the UK and that they will swat down any attempts to identify or charge their citizens under UK law.
only facebook and google can afford to do this. now you see why they lobby so hard for this crap
It’s an outright attack on US companies by the UK.
Trump needs to sanction the UK/EU until they get back in their irrelevant little box.