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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

The only way to create an ironclad age verification system in the UK is extreme digital authoritarianism.

Restrictions on VPNs are an attack on the open Internet and our ability to be secure online – the antithesis of online safety.

Read our briefing ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/

#ProtectVPNs #vpn #vpns #cybersecurity #privacy #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ageverification #StopKillingTheInternet #ukpolitics #ukpol

The only way to restrict VPNs is authoritarian. Trying to ban or age-gate VPNs because they might be used to bypass digital ID age checks would be as unworkable as banning web browsers because they allow access to adult content. Attempts to have a perfect age verification system that no-one can get around would involve an extreme level of digital authoritarianism. To comprehensively prevent circumvention of age checks, a State would need to remove the ability of users to install and use software on their computer and try to prevent the Internet from providing open connectivity. The government must not blow up our cybersecurity and the open Internet with technologically illiterate and authoritarian attacks on VPN use.