look at the state of my “western” “democracy” with “liberal” values, dawg
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House of "lords"? i thought the aristocrats just stay in their castle and do nothing ? 
LANlords 
The insinuation that they're all Lords in the conventional sense is simply untrue. There is also the leadership of the Church of England, and the people nominated to the House of Lords—the actual Lords have final approval, naturally.
It's extremely democratic. It's the second largest legislative body on the planet, second only to... THE SINISTER AUTHORITARIAN SEE SEE PEE! AS USUAL! That one's actually elected positions, but please ignore that fact.
Most people in the UK refer exclusively to the royal family when they're talking monarchy, which outside of the queen/king vetoing the PM there is not much they can do. The house of lords is a proper parliamentary body, and is one part of getting laws set up, alongside the "house of commons", the latter which holds the elected MPs, whereas the house of lords is entirely unelected.
Looks like UK House of Lords wants to know every child's identity and location
can't out-ponce the ponce
mullvad about to receive lots of envelopes with terfland money
I use proton at the moment but i'll keep this in mind if proton comply with this law later.
Don't you want to protect the kids? 
I’ve heard of VPS, something that could supposedly be used to bypass a vpn ban
anyone know where I could go or an article that explains how to use a vps? everywhere I look I get more confused (as an example,
1 vCPU core
4 GB RAM
50 GB NVMe disk space
4 TB bandwidth, why would I need this? What’s it for?)
A VPS, a virtual private server is, to put it shortly and simply, someone else's computer, that they rent out to you. The way you'd be circumventing the VPN ban is that VPNs are specific services that change your apparent location, and they would be targeted by this law. A VPS, that is to say, a small computer in a foreign data centre, would not be hit by it, because most of their use is to setup a website or a web service, or a Minecraft server or so on. So you would be essentially setting up your own private VPN (contact someone tech-savvy) using a service that the state cannot regulate without unduly constraining cloud capital.
4 GB RAM
50 GB NVMe disk space
overkill for a VPN server. 1 gig of ram and ~10 gigs of storage is enough
4 TB bandwidth, why would I need this? What’s it for?)
VPS provides usually have limits on how much data you're allowed to download/upload with their server. 4 TB is more than enough for pretty much everything
I'm not sure how this law is going to work but if they're being serious about tracking VPNs, they would need to do DPI and traffic filtering like they do in places like China. Common VPN protocols such as WireGuard do not attempt to hide the fact that you're using a VPN. I would recommend looking into vless protocol that is specifically made for circumventing state censorship by masking as more "legitimate" web traffic (like HTTPS or WebSocket). Google "3xui panel" - it makes things very easy for configuring your own secure VPN server
just by looking at those specs, I'd get a cheaper one, unless you're going to do more than run a VPN.
incredibly stupid, doomed to fail completely and i'm happy to see it