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Mozilla warns UK: Breaking VPNs will not magically fix Britain's age-check mess
(www.theregister.com)
Anything but parenting properly.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2026
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Problem is its not actually about the children. As always they're the excuse. The UK Government will stoop to almost any excuse possible to give itself more surveillance powers - it took 1984 as a goal rather than a warning.
These laws are not made to protect kids, but to amass power over the people.
Which is weird because I'm obligated to collect data from UK visitors, but not obligated to share it back with the UK government. This means UK government has essentially mandated that every country collects data on UK citizens. Something opposite of what EU and others do.
Don’t worry, when they think they’ll need it you’ll get a polite but abrupt phone call
Just a coincidence world governments all became concerned about kids on the same day 😅
There isn't enough terrorism to justify things with that, so children it is.
We don't have that many children either, looking at demographic developments.
But fascists will find a way through moral hijacking.
We can AI generate pictures of more. See, look how helpless these definitely real children are! We need to protect them from being sexualised- oops, that one shouldn't be in this folder. It's from Grok, forget you ever saw it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if banning VPNs was the real goal of the law.
The whole goal is to track every single person's activity on the internet and VPNs get in the way, so that too.
Go offgrid
I shouldn't have to leave the internet, they are the ones who suck!
That is impossible without a China-level snooping apparatus. And even then it’s only partly possible. This is law made by dumb people.
Totalitarian regime speedrun
Or teaching parents how to parent properly, or cracking down on addictive social media algorithms, or researching the ill affects of pornography, or providing counseling to teens and adults harmed by dangerous materials.
One of the porn sites I visit has a pop up when the home page first loads that says
If you have children, implement parental controls.
And a link to a guide for how to do that.