Discussion
VPNs must not face the chop 🚫
Next week the UK House of Lords will debate whether VPNs undermine the Online Safety Act.
Banning or blocking VPNs will shatter security, privacy and free expression in a self-defeating attempt to make the unworkable workable.
Read our briefing ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/
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I know this was a a Tory bill, but #UKLabour specialise in wrong choices and this was a doozy. But then there are so many others.
Kodi (for example) blamed for what people choose to do with 3rd-party plugins and repos that is not a function of the standard software, and 3rd-party boxes not supplied by the project.
And then compounded by lazy reporting in news articles with a failure to actually talk to the project team.
While Windows Media Player / Media Centre was treated differently.
VPNs aren’t a meaningful threat to age assurance.
⚫ 6–12 year olds are very unlikely to use them, due to technological and economic barriers.
⚫ Older teens already know other workarounds. For these teenagers educational rather than ineffectve technical interventions might be more appropriate.
⚫ Adults use VPNs as they don’t trust unregulated age assurance providers with their personal data.
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VPNs protect families, businesses and democracy.
They keep NHS data secure, help parents manage online risks, and give people in repressive states access to news.
Treating VPNs as a “problem” is misguided. Attacking them is an exercise in throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Efforts should focus on educational measures for young people and regulating the age verification industry.
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