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Lots of not-awful pron sites don't bother with compliance. Cheap, private VPNs are £60/year or less, and it was probably a good idea to have one anyway with all my communisms.
People make fun of the law as a minor thing, but it covers way more than porn. The real annoying thing is not being allowed to view some news articles, Discord servers, reddit posts, even science articles, basically anything anywhere etc. Many are downright banned either by the law, or because verification is stupid/not doable; and many just require ID (which I will never provide). So I kind of have to use the VPN 24/7 just to see half the internet, which is annoying.
They intend to try make Wikipedia comply too, and once VPNs are also cracked down on, we basically won't have a useable internet.
That being said, Labour seem intent on letting the fascist Reform party have dictatorial power next election (not due to majority support, but due to FPTP). And Reform are promising to remove the law, so that problem might be solved while I get my skull crushed into the pavement.
But yeah, "guv" and stuff, whoo.
Ya know what would fix all that? Gun ownership and culture, just like America!!
Sorry to make light of a serious issue, but mocking Gammons is one of my fave things to do here so please don't take that away from me
It's all goody, depressed meself more than anything. I hear you and sympathise with your joy of the sillyspeak, so go for it, I'll try enjoy it more
Aw thanks love can I buy ya a pint?
After the Snowden revelations and whilst I still lived in Britain (I left after the Leave Referendum), I got into the habit of being behind a VPN 24/7 (and still do, even though I don't live there anymore).
It's basic digital hygiene in this day an age of self-proclaimed "democratic" governments snooping on citizens just like the state surveillance apparatus of Authoritarian regimes (and I'm keenly aware of that shit having been born in a nation which was then still a Fascist dictatorship and having grown up hearing the stories).
It also helps with avoidance of full-bought-and-paid-for-legislation like Copyright legislation (i.e. it helps with Piracy).
In Britain, which has the craziest civil society levels of surveillance in Europe by far, people should have been doing this for ages but I guess the suppression of talk about civil society surveillance in reaction to the Snowden Revelations has worked perfectly at keeping people unaware of just how dictatorship-like the UK is in that regard.
That said, it's hilarious that the current bunch of Fascist-adjacent politicians are de facto training people to frequent pirate sites and avoid government sanctioned tracking, thus becoming harder targets for the automated surveillance of the GCHQ.