SpectreAgent Posted yesterday at 07:06 PM Report Posted yesterday at 07:06 PM (edited) It now looks like members of the UK government are vowing to ban VPNs within six months… Edited yesterday at 07:06 PM by SpectreAgent Quote
bbslutuk Posted yesterday at 09:03 PM Report Posted yesterday at 09:03 PM I was holding out for the UK changes to be reversed ... but they look here to stay. Got a VPN and it seems to be working fine accessing this site again! 😁 Quote
pupHawaii Posted yesterday at 09:33 PM Report Posted yesterday at 09:33 PM i've heard from a couple of followers in the UK and EU .. i'm hearing that on twitter - unless you pay for the blue checkmark - you're not going to see any NSFW .. VPN or no VPN .. no NSFW without paying for the blue checkmark .. AND you'll only see NSFW if the account you're looking at has a bluecheck too! (i haven't been able to verify that yet) .. i don't think this applies in the US yet - cuz i'm still seeing NSFW posts on US guys who don't have a blue checkmark .. what I do see is that my UK daily followers have dropped from about 3.9% to 3% in the past week .. and my overall follower numbers from all over are dropping every night .. many have said (roughly) stop supporting Musk and twitter .. not that easy to leave twitter .. none of my accounts anywhere are monetized - i make no money, i don't accept tips or gifts .. so i'm not staying for that reason .. but i do mainly repost others to help them get more followers and help them earn more money - for some it's their main source of employment .. so while leaving wouldn't hurt me monetarily - i don't want to walk away from others i've been helping .. and the alternatives are slim pickings .. tumblr - they can't make up their mind what they allow or don't allow .. bsky/bluesky has about 37m users now - about 10% of twitter .. and the new imaglr.com has just over 20k followers .. so leaving twitter means i leave a lot of users i've been helping behind .. not saying i'm never leaving twitter .. just not right now .. Quote
kitpig Posted 11 hours ago Report Posted 11 hours ago 14 hours ago, pupHawaii said: i've heard from a couple of followers in the UK and EU .. i'm hearing that on twitter - unless you pay for the blue checkmark - you're not going to see any NSFW .. VPN or no VPN .. no NSFW without paying for the blue checkmark .. AND you'll only see NSFW if the account you're looking at has a bluecheck too! (i haven't been able to verify that yet) .. i don't think this applies in the US yet - cuz i'm still seeing NSFW posts on US guys who don't have a blue checkmark .. what I do see is that my UK daily followers have dropped from about 3.9% to 3% in the past week .. and my overall follower numbers from all over are dropping every night .. many have said (roughly) stop supporting Musk and twitter .. not that easy to leave twitter .. none of my accounts anywhere are monetized - i make no money, i don't accept tips or gifts .. so i'm not staying for that reason .. but i do mainly repost others to help them get more followers and help them earn more money - for some it's their main source of employment .. so while leaving wouldn't hurt me monetarily - i don't want to walk away from others i've been helping .. and the alternatives are slim pickings .. tumblr - they can't make up their mind what they allow or don't allow .. bsky/bluesky has about 37m users now - about 10% of twitter .. and the new imaglr.com has just over 20k followers .. so leaving twitter means i leave a lot of users i've been helping behind .. not saying i'm never leaving twitter .. just not right now .. I plan a Twitter world tour to help stay in touch - I'm currently electronically visiting Canada 1 Quote
bare28 Posted 2 hours ago Report Posted 2 hours ago There is more to come. The UK government is currently debating a ban on VPN: cybernews.com/security/vpn-wikipedia-uk-online-safety-laws/ If that becomes law, that will be interesting. Also: "While interest in VPNs surges, Ofcom reminds that platforms must not host, share, or permit content encouraging the use of VPNs to circumvent age checks." From the above link. So this whole thread is enough to cause trouble already. Oh, before I forgot: Wiki is also in the firing line. There is actually an online petition about to petition "repeal the Act has racked up over 280,000 signatures on the official UK Parliament site, most of them in just the past week." Go and sign it! 1 Quote
pupHawaii Posted 2 hours ago Report Posted 2 hours ago 4 minutes ago, bare28 said: There is more to come. The UK government is currently debating a ban on VPN: cybernews.com/security/vpn-wikipedia-uk-online-safety-laws/ If that becomes law, that will be interesting. Also: "While interest in VPNs surges, Ofcom reminds that platforms must not host, share, or permit content encouraging the use of VPNs to circumvent age checks." From the above link. So this whole thread is enough to cause trouble already. Oh, before I forgot: Wiki is also in the firing line. There is actually an online petition about to petition "repeal the Act has racked up over 280,000 signatures on the official UK Parliament site, most of them in just the past week." Go and sign it! VPNs are also used for security reasons, right? so .. they want to take away a security tool? (no pun intended!) 🙂 What I'm also hearing about X/twitter and the UK/EU .. twitter has not complied with the requirement for positive identification .. instead - anyone living in the affected countries just cannot see NSFW any more .. BUT .. if you pay the fee to twitter to get a blue checkmark - you'll be able to see NSFW that other uses with a blue checkmark post! .. i don't know how long the UK/EU will allow this. Quote
SpectreAgent Posted 1 hour ago Report Posted 1 hour ago 25 minutes ago, bare28 said: There is more to come. The UK government is currently debating a ban on VPN: cybernews.com/security/vpn-wikipedia-uk-online-safety-laws/ If that becomes law, that will be interesting. Also: "While interest in VPNs surges, Ofcom reminds that platforms must not host, share, or permit content encouraging the use of VPNs to circumvent age checks." From the above link. So this whole thread is enough to cause trouble already. Oh, before I forgot: Wiki is also in the firing line. There is actually an online petition about to petition "repeal the Act has racked up over 280,000 signatures on the official UK Parliament site, most of them in just the past week." Go and sign it! As always, the UK government uses a sledgehammer to miss a nut. VPNs are invaluable in protecting people online, so if they go ahead and ban VPNs the effect of the Online Safety Bill will be to make online unsafe. It will also leave us with the most repressed internet this side of China. We really are led by dunderheads. 1 Quote
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