[aboringusername]

We are in a community of hackers. There are tools such as VPNs which are effective at bypassing these requirements. That will likely change in a few years as the government will want to crack down on circumvention techniqus. The law is incidious enough to actually suggested that educating people on how to bypass the checks is not allowed - I sincerely hope no court ever upholds that otherwise the very act of education is at threat.

So the end result is using tools such as VPNs or fake videos to bypass the system. Or creating new communities which do not have such restrictions (but they won't be able to be big platforms anymore as they will fall into scope).

So you could have 1000's of smaller bulletin boards. Once they get large enough they'd need to shut down and restart in order to not be within scope.

Alternatively there could be some legal challenges on the way to define the scope of their powers (so far there's not been any enforcement conclusions to challenge, although there are some investigations by OFCOM ongoing)

[xg15]

Are you suggesting that the entire population of the UK switch to using VPNs?

> So you could have 1000's of smaller bulletin boards. Once they get large enough they'd need to shut down and restart in order to not be within scope.

This will work until the moment some actual pedos run some of those small message bords and use it to groom kids and politicians will have the necessary munition to shut down those sorts of exceptions to the law.

[aboringusername]

Yes, because that's how the internet is designed to work, a VPN just routes packets to another location with the nice side effect of being able to use another IP address.

Countries have tried to enforce censorship but even places like China have gaps that are exploitable if you have the right tools and knowledge.

Everyone should be learning about how to bypass state overreach, it's an obligation of its people.