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UK government targets VPNs in new online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban
(www.techradar.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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The United Kingdom, or rather the Oceania Kingdom (1984 reference), will come after every service available on the internet. They're definitely not doing this to protect kids, it's to suppress our voices. We lose all of our privacy and anonymity the moment we give them our face and data.
Most people use VPNs to bypass state-imposed restrictions or anonymity but if you'd have to give your data and face to the government before you access the VPN, it kind of just negates the reason why one would use a VPN.
This reminds me of the news I once read about amateur radio operators who were arrested and are facing death penalty. The government accused them for 'espionage' and 'treason' without any evidences.
One of the Belarusian HAM operator posted on Reddit: “State propaganda unironically claims these men were ‘pumping state secrets out of the air’ using nothing more than basic $25 Baofeng handhelds and consumer-grade SDR dongles. Any operator knows that hardware like this is physically incapable of cracking the modern AES-256 digital encryption used by government security forces. It is a technical fraud, yet they are being charged with High Treason and Espionage. The punishment in Belarus for these charges is life in prison or the death penalty.”
I would not be surprised if I ever any other news like that from the U.K. in a few months or years.
The moment we give our face or our data to companies and the government, it's no longer our face.
2026 is gonna be 1984.