| This is very bad news because I have been in contact with low cost providers (lowendtalk) and the community & even they usually end up renting etc. from datacenters and they usually would have name as well So theoretically, suppose I have a vpn company on A) either such lowend niche providers who might support let's say my mission or we are aligned or B) the hyperscalers or large companies. Now I am 99% sure that large companies would actually restrict VPN creation usage (something remarkably rare right now but still it's a gone deal now) And I feel like even with niche lowendbox providers, suppose I am paying 4 euros or something to a provider to get an IP, they are either using hyperscaler themselves (like OVH) or part of a datacenter itself If a server they own in some capacity runs a vps, can it be considered that they are running a vps and they can get sued by the Safety Act too? If not, then what if this happens one layer above at datacenter and now datacenters might have to comply with them I haven't read the article but wtf. Suppose I run a tmate instance (basically allows you to connect one ssh server to another both inside nat), theoretically this is a vpn as well. I was calling out that they might ban vpn's when online safety act came and I realized that theoretically nothing's stopping them technologically to do so. It's a cat and mouse game but they didn't have a legal reason to do it so much. Now... You have it. Is the end of total privacy for UK here? I feel like even privacy oriented VPN's will move out of UK and non privacy oriented (ie. who will accept your id's) will probably have to manage it or use some third party and I am pretty sure that this basically gives govt. even more, they might now look at which IP said something, contact the now compliant VPN and block other truly private, for which user Id used a particular IP at particular time and seek their ID. I don't know how Dystopian UK's gotten but what's stopping a "reasonable cause" or some UK fbi equivalent contacting. I feel like even one or two such extreme case of VPN providers would be enough to scare the whole country into check where if you are UK citizen and you talk against UK online, you will be screwed. Atleast that's the direction I am seeing it heading. Depending on the instance & how many more such dystopian laws UK adds. It's democracy gets really questionable... and I am not sure what it will be replaced by. Both parties are kind of aligned in this from what I can tell. Just raise what "reasonable" suspicion to contact means and abuse any laws or create new dystopian laws but online safety act wasn't okay but VPN's provided a way around it. Now that VPN's themselves are affected. It's kind of gonna wreak havoc imo of any individual privacy. I am worried what this might mean on tor. Since tor can be considered a vpn, so will UK company sue me if I run a tor instance now? |
Make the friction high enough for evading age restrictions and it will stop most kids. Not all but most. Same as most shops stop under age kids buying alcohol and most cinemas enforce age ratings.
If you want to roll your own VPN go ahead.
As far as the "dystopian" state of the UK goes. Even if the UK was a "distopia" the internet won't save you, even though people of a certain age like to think they can stop an authoritarian government from their keyboard. Take the US as a recent example, the bastion of free speech, but US citizens are being murdered by a government organisation. Posting memes from your VPN won't help.