I love how all the UK's Online Safety Act "lords" and "barons" refer to VPNs as "circumvention techniques" Says a lot about who the Online Safety Act is really designed to control - not the website, but the user

It's not like websites are running around dealing VPNs to Britons like drug pushers on a street corner It's Britons going and downloading them because they want to see the world as it is, not as-censored by the British state

It's not like websites are running around dealing VPNs to Britons like drug pushers on a street corner. UK residents are, on their own initiative, downloading them because they want to see the world as it is, not the world-as-censored-by-the-British-state.

In fact, to a social media website, VPN use is suboptimal because it interferes with the site's ability to accurately target ads to known user attributes. It's bad for business for a user to hit you via a VPN. VPN use is for users who want freedom. That's it

In any event, the Lords didn't mention Wikipedia's promised refusal to obey or the UK's failure to compel compliance from multiple US websites. Haven't got the memo yet. They will

In any event, the "Lords" didn't mention Wikipedia's promised refusal to obey or the UK's failure to compel compliance from multiple US websites. Haven't got the memo yet. They will