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   Mr Penguin (mr_penguin@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2026 14:27:10 JST Mr Penguin

   "UK Official Promises Statements 'Around VPNs' and Further Teen Restrictions on Chatbots and Social Media "

   Basically the UK is going to do what Australia has done in banning young people from social media and push juveniles (particularly as these bans become more effective) and probably even more so non-juveniles torward the darknet and completely unregulated markets in their quest to 'protect' kids. This is as sites are pressured to ensure kids can't get on (through severe liability) sites like Facebook will be forced to block VPN users too. When neither kids nor adults can get on Facebook they'll end up on sites that are not operating in the UK/Australia and do not have to comply with UK laws (4chan??? or was it reddit that blatantly told one or the other f' off?) and should the UK continue down this extremist totalitarianism direction they will be forced to block reddit and sites like it that don't follow UK law and VPNs. That will funnel kids into using Tor and accessing the darknet equivalents of facebook (and more decentralized solutions like Mastodon).

   "'I have commissioned further research about their usage. There are really important issues to balance here,' she says. 'Many people want to use VPNs for privacy — that is important — but we know that some children use them to get around restrictions. I will come back to that in July in our response to the consultation.' So, we'll have to wait until next month for anything definite, but it's hard not to feel like a full ban on VPNs is already on the table."

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     sister_sam (sister_sam@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jun-2026 04:25:40 JST sister_sam

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     @mr_penguin In a world where sex and violence is everywhere in media what exactly are they claiming to "protect" kids from. We know this was never ever about protecting kids. It was always about being able to fully track and control everyone on one of the last bastions of freedom - the internet and our computers.

     Mr Penguin repeated this.
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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jun-2026 02:58:54 JST fu

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     @sister_sam @mr_penguin the vast majority of the claim is that they are protecting from online predators trying to convince young people to serve them nudes, or meet in real life, and simalr abuses.

     Nevermind that the vast majority of sick abuses are from people publicly known to the youth and their family, often the family members themselves.