Comment by xnorswap
7 days ago
> the UK will need to ban sites like 4chan which do not comply with their age verification demands
They will not hesitate to do so, the UK has the power to quickly and easily blacklist sites.
7 days ago
> the UK will need to ban sites like 4chan which do not comply with their age verification demands
They will not hesitate to do so, the UK has the power to quickly and easily blacklist sites.
Oh for sure. I personally think this was the whole point of the bill.
We've seen from online bans in recent years that it doesn't really matter if someone is still technically able to access a the banned content, at some point if you make the content hard enough to find its influence becomes increasingly irrelevant.
This new legislation basically gives the UK government an excuse to ban large sections of the internet from UK ISPs since they can say they weren't complying with UK law and shift the blame/responsibility in the eyes of the public – "it's not censorship, they're breaking the law!"
In doing this it will likely be enough to reduce UK traffic to those sites by 90%+. While it might technically be possible to buy and install a VPN to access them realistically most people won't bother.