To the people of the UK:
What the hell is this authoritarian, pearl clutching shit? You’re fucking shit up for everyone. Can you get your people to please fuck off?
Thanks, from some guy on the Internet.
Yes I know I’ll write to my local MP and see what they sa- oh they didn’t respond. Ah, I’ll sign that petition that got over 400,000 signatur- oh they said no. You can be damn sure the “people of the UK” have nothing to do with this, we didn’t vote on it. Should just take a leaf out of the French book and just start burning shit.
The French get shit done. I can certainly say that. They’re a population that really won’t stand for being shit on. It’s why they made such good use of the guillotine, historically.
Taking a page from their book may not be a bad idea… Or you could reference the alleged works of Saint Luigi from America. He also made a profound impact. At least for a while.
VPN company: “Don’t care, not in the UK, fuck off.”
Mullvad vpn is probably gonna be safe from this demand from the uk because their account system relies on random string of numbers PLUS their website is also available on the tor browser
as long as they can accept GBP in the mail you’re good
They take crypto, wash a few satoshis through lightning and you’re as good as anonymous.
sure, xmr would be better, but 🤷🏻♂️
edit: well shuck my corn!
“We accept cash, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monero, bank wire, credit card, PayPal, Swish, Eps transfer, Bancontact, iDEAL, and Przelewy24.”
That’s a niiiice tip.
Deleting my account and re-joining under TOR when my lapse comes around. Might as well hide my use entirely.
Next step would be requiring UK ISPs to block traffic to the VPNs. They’ve already made it so you can’t go to some sites based on DNS lookups, so there’s precedent. Making it by IP address from a continuously-updated list would make it exceedingly difficult for regular users to access a public VPN, and while making one yourself from a VPS is straightforward, it can get expensive very quickly if you want to watch videos or download lots of stuff through it.
Shithole country doing shithole things. The UK is acting like a red state, and their standard of living is dropping accordingly.
Uk is closer to US in ideology than to europe post-brexit. also russel vought is behind all the porn bans of steam recently too, i would imagine he probably is too on this.
UK was also closer to US ideology pre Brexit.
Republicans with nationalized health care and a monarchy.
Even pre-brexit. The UK was never part of the EU, culturally speaking
I’d argue that causation may be the other way around.
It’s recursive
Don’t tell them you can buy a vps and run your own vpn in another country.
Accessing the internet now requires age verification. Gg
In the UK we already have a law where isps block porn by default (blacklisting) the adult who took out the plan can contact the isp and ask them to opt out of these blocks. That’s been a thing for about 10 years. You can own a Pay-as-you-go sim as a minor but you have to send government id to prove you are over 18 to get the adult content filtering turned off.
That’s one of the things that made it clear to me that the new law is an authoritarian data mining operation and blatant power grab. Like… We already have these tools in place. If you don’t want your kid accessing porn, don’t opt out of the filters provided by your isp.
You could argue that putting the onus on the platform is more effective at “protecting kids” than having the isps maintain blacklists but there will always be small sites that don’t comply and enterprising kids who find a way around any block. Just like the law requires you to be 18 to buy alcohol or tobacco here but there are always dodgy shops who sell tobacco to underage kids. There are older siblings and relatives willing to buy cigarettes and alcohol for underage teens.
This was never about protecting the children. That was the Trojan horse used to justify these laws to the technically uninformed.
They probably know and don’t care because more than 99.99% won’t do it.
Shh, dont tell him lobotomies became mandatory on birth since Gen Z, and there are only few who still know how this magical phone they are using every day works, let alone know what an IP address is
I demand total access to UK official’s private life then.
I see the louis rossmann in that answer
Are they gonna ban torrents next? Https? You can ssh to a remote server and wget files all day long, or setup vnc and have a vpn like experience.
Maybe not if you are thirteen years old…
It’s funny, because that’s exactly what I did around the age of 13 to bypass my school’s firewall. I had everything on a USB drive, including Ghostzilla and PuTTY so I could browse through an SSH SOCKS tunnel. Mind you, my home computer was the SSH server – but these days it wouldn’t be hard to get a VPS in a less restrictive country:
“Hey [parent], can I borrow your credit card to set up a server so my friends and I can play [game] together?”
It takes one kid in a group to set something like this up.
The neighbours’ seven-year-old suggested using a VPN to get around age checks. I don’t know if he knows what one is, but he’s definitely seen adverts for them.
Don’t forget to donate to Tor Project and/or a relay operator if you use it, even $1 covers like several TB of traffic.
We did the year of Linux. Let’s make this the year of Tor.
Real talk though, Tor for porn would be an awful experience and would slow down the entire Tor network. Tor is slow to begin with, and downloading large files (like videos) only slows things down even more for everyone. It should be a last resort, not the first thing people flock to. It’s the same reason people avoid torrenting over Tor; It’s slow and inefficient, so your downloads take fucking forever.
You use Tor to pop out in any other more enlightened country where you use bitcoin or some other crypto to purchase access to a good vpn and download the installer.
Then download TBs of porn through your shiny new vpn subscription rather than bogging down the onion network
Tor project has many retorts but imo, the easiest way to improve it is just use it, even without donating. If literally everyone used it at all costs, websites would be forced to support traffic from it and blacklisting relays would kill the whole internet, e.g. $$$$. Without these issues, it would probably be much easier to host a relay, or even embed relay hosting in the browser by default. ISPs would be forced to open incoming ports, and firewalls would include it. Then it wouldn’t be slow or limited.
If literally everyone used it at all costs, websites would be forced to support traffic from it and blacklisting relays would kill the whole internet
A VPS is one of the best tools on the internet. Make your own relay, with or without blackjack and/or hookers.
True but that’s a lot harder than installing a browser
It was slow when I first tried it, decades ago, but I actually can’t tell any difference in speed these days. I use it for everything now.
I use up3foe torrenting, but Tor for porn. It’s fine.
they also thought oat meal and corn flakes would end masturbation, look how that went…
They hwat now?
I definately wasnt sneaking off to eat a bowl of cereal in my room when i thought nobody was around.
Use tor to tunnel to a more enlightened country
buy vpn anonymously
use vpn
Continue to buy VPNs while using other VPNs. Or use mullvad who apparently even accept cash in the post.
PIA takes bitcoin, i’ve used it myself before. easier, cheaper and less risky than sending cash in the post
Also traceable unless you bought the bitcoin anonymously or mined it. Mullvad accepts Monero, which is not traceable (and also bitcoin if you really want to).
at the moment no one is going into that level of granularity. I do own some monero, if i feel the need in the future i may switch over to that completely or at least start purchasing bitcoin anonymously which is something else a VPN can help with.
Add to that the fact that if a place accepts crypto there’s a good chance that they only accept one and that is BTC
Yeah, Monero is a pain which is why a lot of people prefer mailing the money. That was my point.
You can use cash to buy gift cards, then fuel your account with 3rd party gift cards. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/gift-card-payment (Not the most economical, but a good way to bootstrap into a VPN if more traditional payments are not available)
Just create your own VPN. Just rent a vps server in Ireland or Netherlands and install VPN software on it like OpenVPN and route your traffic through that server. You can even share your VPN with friends.
at some point i may do
Why aren’t these chuds fearing for their lives? Why aren’t they being dragged out into the street and strung up by their own intestines? I thought this world was supposed to defend freedom. Guess not.
Cant force your legislation on businesses out of your country, simple as that. I hope those VPN providers just tell them to fuck off.
Every british tech-literate person should participate in I2P. The Internet should be freedom.
all of the sudden these goody two shoes politicians want to control porn for “the safety of the children”
what a bunch of tards
lemmy and mastodon both have lots of porn. this is a dumb waste of time.
Insert tasteless parody of the “First They Came” poem
Ah yes “The Porn Loophole”, was one of my favorites , I should still have it on a DVD somewhere.
I’ve got one called the Porn Loopback Hole, wanna see?
