Mandatory age checks will be enforced from November 12, 2025
  • BeerEnjoyer@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    The noose tightens. After this crap was implemented in the UK, half of the country should be up in flames in protests. But it wasn’t so other countries took note and felt confident doing the same thing.

  • pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.frEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    The headline is vert clickbaity : it does not affect VPN users (the law forbids age-gated websites from promoting VPNs as a circumvention), and the whole article is just an ad for VPNs

    • snipingsnipe@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Tbh I would generally welcome a VPN-industrial-complex as long as it doesn’t result in a small ring of big names lobbying for systematic monopolistic dominance as to crush anything that doesn’t require PII… but I’m sure commercial and state interests would converge :/

  • BeerEnjoyer@lemmy.zipEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    The noose tightens. After this crap was implemented in the UK, half of the country should be up in flames in protests. But it wasn’t so other countries took note and felt confident doing the same thing.