Comment by consumer451
7 days ago
I struggle to understand how your comment relates to VPN usage in the UK, in any way. Could you please help me understand the relation?
7 days ago
I struggle to understand how your comment relates to VPN usage in the UK, in any way. Could you please help me understand the relation?
If you believe that this law really is just about protecting our dear sweet children, then they're completely unrelated. But if you really, truly believe that, I'm not sure anything could explain the link simply enough that you'd understand it.
So the law isn't about little Johnny wanking it to PornHub. It's about control. It's a government that has proven time and time again the only thing it cares about is more control over the people it should be serving being able to get a little more control.
If you already have a faltering cultural and national identity, and immigration - both legal and illegal - is skyrocketing[0][1], it's basically a straight line to see a large cohort of people link the two and and vote for the people saying they will end it. It's also not a remotely "far right" opinion to think that people should not be allowed to come into a country illegally, and if you do come into a country illegally, you should be removed. The idea that this is somehow bad is itself the fringe opinion.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_immigration_to_the_Unit...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_immigration_to_the_Unit...
Reform appears to be on track for a major win in the next UK election. How will they address the problem of the UK nanny state?
Looking at the USA: the federal policies are currently as anti-immigrant as possible, and in the US states which support those policies the most, age verification has been passed into law.
I fail to see how being anti-immigration, no matter one's opinion on that matter, resolves the basic issue of a nanny state.