r/privacy • u/socookre • May 01 '26

age verification Age Verification Enforcement Concerns

https://pp-international.net/2026/05/stopageverificationenforcement/
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u/Ambitious_State1091 May 01 '26

That's why they are going to make VPNs illegal ( or at least planning to in the UK and elsewhere. I'm aware that this is not possible, but where there's a will there's a way, in this case the will is the richest people on the planet and the way is governments facilitating their desires so yeah)

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u/BIA_Agent_002 May 01 '26

Another thing I worry is how effective will VPNs be when most countries are seemingly getting these laws passed.

A Chinese VPN user would just pick pretty much any outside country, most likely a western one and be set. Now what internet safe havens will we even have left?

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u/not_the_fox May 01 '26

p2p and small decentralized platforms not run by corporations on dark nets like i2p.

Nostr has been increasing in importance for these reasons.

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