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There are two ways to view this. Currently kids have unfettered access to pornographic/adult oriented websites. This isn't authoritarian in the same ways as you mentioned above. RT had the option to find a mechanism to verify users coming from the UK are over 18. He chose (wisely in my personal opinion - I gave a number of reasons above) not to. Grindr chose to partner with a third party to take photos of your face and use (presumably) 'AI' to determine if you appear over 18 or not with a promise that the facial data would not be kept. Grindr have the funds to do this and there has to be an element of trust to keep using the site. So this isn't quite the same as countries where access to porn - or more specifically gay porn - sites has been blocked. Prove your age and off you trot. Now the flip side is that it's a flawed system. Any and all "nannying" technology is because whatever they can think up can be circumvented. Much more worrying to me - and something I would encourage everyone to take an interest in and be prepared to voice dissent over is the constant attempt by successive home secretaries (going back to at least Theresa May) to backdoor encryption. And sorry folks but this backdoor action ain't fun. Here's a quick and dirty analogy of how encryption works for websites. Top and Bottom want to exchange some secret info. Top has a padlock and a super-complex key to said padlock. Bottom have their own padlock and super-complex key. Top takes the information he wants to send and puts in into a secure box. He then puts his padlock onto it and sends it to Bottom. Bottom receives the box and checks that, visually, it looks ok and untampered with. At this point, Bottom puts his padlock on and sends the box back to Top. The box now has both padlocks on. Top receives the box and again checks to ensure there's no obvious tampering. At this point, Top unlocks his lock and takes it off. He then sends the box back to Bottom. Once again, Bottom checks the box and then takes of his lock. The box is now open and the contents are available to Bottom. This is basically what we refer to as private-public key infrastructure. The padlock is publicly viewable. No one cares. The key though...that's the private, secret, part. Only you have it. There should be no copies. What our lovely gov is suggesting though, is that they, and only they have a key that can open any padlock at any time and no one will ever even be able to tell. HUGE problems: 1 - No fucking way I would trust any government anywhere, ever, to not wholesale open boxes and take a peek 2 - What stops them altering the contents? The recipient would have almost no way of knowing. 3 - And if those two things don't send you cold, this should. No backdoor ever remains in the hands of the *cough* "good guys". Criminals will, with 100% certainty crack it. 100%. Guranteed. I would argue that if they push this through we need a law that says everyone - and I mean everyone - from politicians to banks to the military and police have to use this broken encryption. Watch them come up with excuses why there should be exceptions... no. If it's such a good idea then make it punishable by law not to use it. NO EXCEPTIONS! "But think of the children! You must love protecting paedophiles and terrorist." is the tired argument they roll out. Of course no right minded individual wants to perpetuate child abuse but the sad fact is that most abusers are already known to their victims. Then there's the fact that even when presented with overwhelming evidence (look up Jimmy Saville or the grooming gang issues we've had). The same is true of terrorists etc - they are almost always known about. Almost always already on some kind of watch list. And yet... No this is a sledge hammer to crack a walnut for sure but it's not on the same level as any of the above. <phew>

Blocked fine. Currently using Brave's built in Tor. VPN also works.

Guys take a look back through the posts. I've given you all various options from free to paid for to be able to keep using the site.

Not sure that justified a downvote - especially from a moderator. It was a simple opinion - didn't call anyone out, name anyone etc.

Always blows my mind that people post without reading - especially when they post into a thread that repeatedly explains what the "problem" they are experiencing is. :-)

I'm connected via a vpn right now with no side effects.

Until they ban VPN's They're already taking the baton from numerous previous home secretaries and trying to weaken encryption. Just look at the lawsuit between UK Gov vs Apple (and now, Apple being supported by WhatsApp).

Although I pride myself in taking any age/looks as a rule, and a no cock refused bottom, I much prefer older guys. My own age upwards ideally. Unless I am super horny, or in a bent-over-taking-what comes mode (and usually then a top is making the arrangements) I find it a bit uncomfortable being hit on by guys half my age. And I find it a bit uncomfortable how many guys my age on the likes of Grindr explicitly target young twinks. If that was men and young girls, it'd be frowned on at the very least. Now having said all of that I don't give two fucks what consenting adults get up and if someone has claimed to be 18, is on a site or app that requires you to be 18 and could pass for 18 or over (and we're clearly not talking about young "kids" here) then surely there should be a case for some kind of entrapment charge on the kid. Honestly - just look at teenage girls. My closest friend has a daughter who has literally just turned 14. Out of her school uniform and with just a little makeup if you didn't know better she looks closer to 20/21. It's terrifying, really. Consent is important but maybe on top of that, guys who have any doubts whatsoever should ask for ID (and perhaps take a photo/copy of it in case it's fake...but then who wants to risk having their ID out there with a stranger? All difficult options/questions/solutions) or maybe just walk away. I've had guys hit me up who didn't look 16, let alone 18. I always block and move on. Not worth it. I was sucking cock in public toilets from just before I was 16. I looked 16. This at a time in the UK when the age of consent for gay sex was, if I recall, 18 (maybe even 21? No one asked, no one cared. Most of them were old enough to be my grandfather. I suspect if we'd been caught they'd have been in a world of legal trouble, but I just needed their spunk and I was grateful to them for their donations and what I learned.

There has definitely been a shift within politics since Trump was first elected. Back in 2016, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt: he was a man not from a political background and even though he said a lot of questionable stuff, it was also a little refreshing to get actual answers to questions - if you look at politicians in the UK, they are experts at avoiding answering and it's hugely frustrating. What happened next though was cut and dry demagogue behaviour. The gaslighting. The outright lying. The self-serving. What surprised me - and still surprises me - is the cult mind set of his followers: The leader is always right The leader must not be questioned Any questioning of the leader is heresy. There must be no questioning that you are in a cult. It is not a cult - everyone else is just out to get us. And so on But it's wider than this and was starting before this: look at the antivax movements or the chemtrails conspiracy theorists or the 5G signal conspiracies. You have grown damn adults who won't vaccinate their kids. Despite decades and decades of solid science. Because they think there's this global conspiracy - here's your <science based> degree, no sign this lifetime binding NDA to join the club of liars. Fuck me - Bill Clinton was alone in a room, in the White House with Monica Lewinski and the world got wind of that pretty damn quickly! I do think it's down to a consistent lowering of educational standards. After all, the less educated are easier to manipulate and don't have the wherewithal to ask the tough questions (although look at Trump's record on that.. tough question / question he doesn't like? Attack the person asking...attack the outfit they work for... anything to divert attention from the actual topic). Look at the tariff saga. Even now, a huge number of people in the USA believe that it's China or the EU that pay the tariffs... Vance calling out NATO and saying the USA can't count on them. The only time that NATO Article 5 has been invoked was after 9/11 when we all rushed to the USA's defence. And even then, the intelligence was a bunch of lies. They behave like spoilt children and then wonder why Canada/EU/Australia want to also look inwards more. There's a reason why the rest of the world doesn't want US meat, or cars, for example - the meat is of terrible quality (nowhere else have I ever seen steaks listed as the best quality because they contain 89% meat...11% what, exactly?). They're full of growth hormones and water and other shit banned elsewhere. And your cars are terrible for our roads and smaller streets. Far far too big. And too thirsty. You've been fed a constant stream of propaganda that USA is the best. Not even close in most cases. The Democrats screwed the pooch with the election: You know they were running adverts towards the end of campaigning suggesting that women could vote for Kamala Harris with offensive taglines like "and you wouldn't even have to tell your husband!" Way to patronise your prospective voters. Then they just assumed "we've got the black vote in the bag with Kamala" They should have worked to replace Biden much sooner. If they'd declared him medically unfit and replaced him 18-months to 2 years into his term, he'd have got sympathy. Instead they allowed him to say he would run again when he was clearly unfit. They have pushed the trans rights type messages too far. They've alienated biological women by removing safe spaces, allowing men to compete in women's sports just by declaring they are now a woman. They have supported allowing children to transition. They avoided targeting the things that actually would mean having a difficult conversation. And I do not understand the average mindset of an American around some other issues: This idea that you "don't want to pay for anyone else's healthcare" but this is precisely how insurance works - it spreads the risk so when someone uses it, it isn't the insurers paying, it's all of you. I was amazed, still, though, that so many of you voted a man back into power who lies, cheats, has a criminal record, has almost zero respect on the world stage, refuses to be accountable, etc etc.

I can count on one hand how often I've taken a wrapped cock. For me, the pleasure that comes from being fucked is intense, but pales into insignificance compared to the pleasure that I get from being cum inside. I was a late starter for being fucked - 26 - and my first time was with a much older man who picked me up at a cruise. I had sucked a ton of dick in the decade before then but never had the guts to be fucked despite offers "to help". It was something I was genuinely desperate to experience and I used to wake up in a morning with a raging hard on and a literal craving, but I had no gay friends to advise and there wasn't really any info, so I was scared of AIDS and pain, and didn't know how to overcome those feelings until this one day I just did. Literally, this guy said "come back to my place and I will fuck you". When I said I was an anal virgin he didn't blink and said "So?" He was very gentle. There was no pain and when he said he was cumming inside me, I came. Hard. It remains the one and only time in my life I've blown a load without any contact on my cock. But again, even that feeling - as amazing as it was at the time - was a distant second to the literal buzz I had in my head. There was no worry or concern or care. It turned a switch on in my brain and I took as much raw cock as possible. I felt like I'd had a drugs hit for hours afterwards and I was craving more. I found that if a guy pulls out to shoot (the fuck is that all about, anyway?), or used a rubber, I simply didn't get the same feeling. I feel like I have been cheated out of something. Over the years I tried to be careful. Tried to serosort, and avoid guys I saw as overly risky. But the cravings get too loud and I have spent more time than I can remember taking spunk from complete strangers. And I found it escalated. First it was one guy at a cruise and I'd go home. Then I'd stay to get another...and another. Then I found the saunas. Gaydar used to be full of guys looking to breed close by and I could go from one to another and get a few loads a night. When work changed and I started to travel UK wide, I rarely struggled to find guys to come to my hotel room, or I'd try to find a local cruise / sauna as well. I've had literally hundreds of guys through me over the years and it's still never enough. Then of course, I found out how much I fucking love anonymous, blindfolded or dark room/dark cruise sex. Yeah slut by name and by nature. But...that is my journey. If you are uncertain, then don't rush. Either find someone willing to do a home test together or glove up. But if you want to be 100% sure "you won't get sick*" then abstain. Have a wank. And maybe never leave the house. *I hate terms like that. "Clean/dirty" etc. Go and read up ffs.

There isn't much you can do at the website end that will make it any more performant over a VPN than it is for general access. If you're limited to free choices, I would seriously recommend using the Brave browser and TOR as I said above. Generally, it's just as responsive as native browsing.

I'm bi and entirely bottom for guys and tend towards the submissive as well. I love for my arse to take a good thrashing whilst I am being fucked but of everything I live for that moment when a complete stranger cums inside me. It is an addiction and when I don't get it for a while it affects my mood. When I do get it, I am desperate for the next one and the next one. I love dark rooms our out cruising late at night when it's dark but I've also found I love wearing my blindfold hood in a random hotel room somewhere with the door unlocked ready for guys to just walk in and dump their loads into me and I'm always looking for those elusive tops who want to hook up and as well as use me themselves, spend the night in the hotel room trawling the apps, online, or taking me to take loads - all whilst I am blindfolded. I'm planning to try to get away more often for the rest of this year (to any UK tops who are reading this that are within about 2 hours of Nottingham, and would love to whore me - get in touch. If you're on fabguys my handle there is slut_tony and on grindr I usually keep it to something like "cum dump" with the first u a squirt icon. Right now my photo over there is me holding a phone up to take the photo - grey canterbury shirt with their logo in red. I do not care about age, looks, size, etc. and I will always take quantity over quality. I'd rather be fucked 5 times by mediocre tops than spend the same time being banged by one god (though that's fine too, of course...just given the choice... lol) and I pride myself in never refusing a bare cock, ever. I hate condoms with a passion. They make me sore, they dull the feeling and I feel cheated at the end...to the extent I can literally count on one hand how often I've been fucked with a top wearing one. For me, it's no glove or no love.

You probably won't. It is unlikely you will get a visa being HIV+

Very much so.

Whilst I wouldn't argue about their stupidity, this sort of thing has been going on for way longer than this government has been in power.

So, to summarise, the options UK guys have: Don't use the site after July (no cost, obviously, but boo!) Use a paid VPN application (Nord, SurfShark and Malwarebytes are all trusted platforms) that lets you choose to appear to be from an unbanned location (small cost depending on what you choose) Download the Brave web browser and open a private, Tor-connected, window (no cost, and as per my post above, fairly simple to do) Move. (bit pricey, as the options go, and not entirely practical for most people lol)

That's a fair point. It's not like it's particularly bad as you say, but it's more of a business/manufacturing area and kind of in the middle of nowhere, relative to other people/parts of Sheffield. I once walked to a hotel from there as I couldn't get a taxi, and it certainly kept me on edge.

Yeah if you search my posts, you will see that I've commented on the Sheffield CumUnion parties before. When they were once a month, and fairly early on them being there, they were brilliant. I managed to take 11 loads at my very first one. When you arrived, you were informed it was a CumUnion party event and it was, frankly, packed. The next one I went to a couple of months later was equally brilliant. But then, I think they got a bit greedy and decided to have one every two weeks. One was a "blackout" event and the other, I think a naked one. They took the doors off of the glory holes as well. Attendance tanked. This 2016/2017 and it never recovered. The staff now don't really seem to give much of a damn. One did claim he fucked me through the glory hole at one of my last visits, last year, and then blanked me... But it's also suffering the same fate as many other places - low attendance, and when guys do go, they seem to be more interested in waiting for the perfect twink, or just seem uninterested now, rather than the good old fashioned rutting that there used to be. That, and standing around bitching about other attendees.

I have another solution which seems to work and is free and more trustworthy than some of the other suggestions. If you download the Brave web browser ([think before following links] https://brave.com/download/) you have the option built in to launch it connected via Tor This then adds a layer of security that masks your location. As you can see, right now it shows me as being in Istanbul (I am not). You can't choose your exit points so there's a chance it'll occasionally send you via the UK anyway but hey, it's free and it works.

I wouldn't personally. Too much chance for it to be compromised.

The problem is that the site owner has a legal responsibility to verify that users from the UK (however they access a site) are over 18. How they get there, what mechanisms they use... usually makes no difference in the eyes of the law. By geoblocking the UK by IP, it makes it possible for RT to state that he's done what he can.

NordVPN is a good option and can have some good deals on from time to time but you are limited to something like 6 simultaneous concurrent device connections - usually enough for most people. It also has SOCKS 5 proxy servers for connecting e.g. BitTorrent clients (handy if you have a server always on to download them - not so much for most folks). Surfshark is a good option if you need more - it has unlimited simutlaneous connections. Both have loads of endpoints all over the world. Both claim to be non-logging.

What measures? You keep saying this but give no solutions. What do you propose? What measures do you recommend that are techinically and legally sound, secure, would be trusted by people and simple to integrate into the site? I posted some such options above but let me tell you something I would not use any of them. Putting the onus onto RT isn't fair or reasonable. Using an unknown third party and handing them over my PII for a site such as this? Not happening. Again it comes across as self entitlement - this is a free website for the owner to run as he sees fit and in a way that won't get him shut down or held liable for breaking the law - and this is demonstrated by the words you choose to use such as "every right" - I am afraid to inform you but you have literally the same rights as everyone else here: none. And you frame it like it's an attack of some sort on guys from the UK - what about all the red states that RT has had to block? Part of the problem is that people in the UK have allowed shit like this to happen over an over. Every Home Seceratary going back to before Theresa May has been desperate to weaken encryption and have used everything from terrorism to "think about the children" to try to get it. This is yet another weapon in their armory - it won't stop here and people need to wake up and start to take a stand. I suspect this, like many other attempts, is actually doomed to fail because it's too difficult to police - especially abroad - but it's just another attempt to get where they want to get to.

It's an interesting question. In theory, yes, because Rawtop will geoblock UK based IP address ranges. In practice? Not sure it's a big enough problem for anyone in such a position who needs to, to care about. After all the site admin has done what they can within the bounds of reason.

Oh come now. That is about as immature and selfish as it gets. If it means so much to you, why not draft up some legally binding agreement that says you will personally handle all the costs, risks and technical aspects of allowing in guests from the UK? How on earth can you react like that when this risk to Rawtop is very fucking real? Grow up. It isn't a case of not being welcome, it's a case of risk mitigation and if you can't see that, then you are thicker than syrup.