Comment by AnthonyMouse
4 months ago
The trouble here is that the law is so crazy that third parties allowing users in the relevant jurisdiction to access the site could result in the site still be liable, so then they would have the same reason to block your proxy service if a non-trivial number of people were using it.
To do any good you don't want to cause grief for the victims of the crazy law, you want to cause grief to its perpetrators.
Ofcom have said that they consider geoblocking to be sufficient in writing, so at least they would probably lose any legal case brought against them.
Which would in turn cause the whole thing to be a farce, because then the solution would be for every site to geoblock the UK and then every person in the UK to use a proxy.
It is.
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Then I guess that'd be a use case of technologies like Tor or I2P, properly, securely used.
Worth mentioning that the lawyer who runs onlinesafetyact.co.uk, Neil Brown, has its onion address in his profile.
https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil
http://3kj5hg5j2qxm7hgwrymerh7xerzn3bowmfflfjovm6hycbyfuhe6l...