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Is Ofcom coming for VPNs?
Monitoring their use through the narrow lens of whether the UK Online Safety Act is working is shortsighted.
"It’s important to note VPNs can help protect children's security online too, they aren’t just used to avoid content blocks."
🗣️ ORG's @JamesBaker
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The system incompetence means they cannot handle the perpetrators that produce harmful material.
So in their pathetic frustration they start hitting the users, including innocent bystanders who just want privacy and security.
@openrightsgroup @JamesBaker Ofcom are getting way too big for their boots. Only yesterday, I found a comment on their “What Is Ofcom” page from 2022 that says they “do not censor what people post or share online”. In 3 short years, that has become fundamentally untrue. Ofcom’s job is to make communication easier and fairer. It should be stripped back to its role as a regulator of services (ISPs, broadcasters, radio spectrum users), not a government censor. What remit does Ofcom have to “monitor VPNs”?
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