Comment by daveoc64
1 day ago
Note that the children's commissioner is only an advisor to government.
The government itself has said it doesn't believe VPNs should be outlawed - that's even stated in the article.
1 day ago
Note that the children's commissioner is only an advisor to government.
The government itself has said it doesn't believe VPNs should be outlawed - that's even stated in the article.
> it doesn't believe VPNs should be outlawed
That still leaves space for a lot of unpleasant, but plausible, alternatives:
* Banning under-18s from using VPNs; enforced by ordering Visa+Mastercard to deny UK-originating payments to VPN operators that don't verify their users' identity.
* Introducing a "VPN license"; initially only granted to large corporate users. All encrypted VPN traffic will be required to periodically broadcast their VPN license-number in cleartext so that ISP-based traffic monitoring will let it pass, otherwise the connection will be reset.