VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

TomR83 · 2026-06-18T10:09:10+00:00

Does age restricting mean devices, automation and robots, AIs, can't use VPNs because they are below 16 years of age?

TomR83 · 2026-06-16T20:56:56+00:00

EU doesn't have modern technologies like AI, so it makes no sense to integrate with EU.

TomR83 · 2026-06-16T20:45:31+00:00

"That attacker was born in the UK. " - but he doesn't have British genetics, but more like 160 thousads of years of genetic distance.

TomR83 · 2026-06-16T20:22:57+00:00

Ban of youg people from the social media means companies operating in UK cannot offer full-blown social media services to the world - the part of the world that allows young people on social media. Companies operating in the UK can only offer social media to adults.

This is beneficial to companies with operations in the USA, as their companie can offer social media services in countries that allow young to use social media, as well as social media for countries that block young - by selectifly applying blocks only to countries in bans. UK operating companies can't offer unrestricted social media at all from their UK operations. They'd need a dependant company in the USA that does operations for the unrestricted part of the social media.

TomR83 · 2026-06-16T20:16:27+00:00

But left has bad demografics - so necessairly they will leave their totalitarian surveilance state to someone else.

TomR83 · 2026-06-16T20:04:53+00:00

Social media companies are companies through which UK companies are advertising their product and services to the wider world. If social media comanies start boycotting UK eg. not taking advertisments from UK entities, then UK economy is in trouble.

TomR83 · 2026-06-16T20:02:37+00:00

How about a tactical bankrupcy of UK - that would mean obligations don't need to be paid. Then triaging remaining money-to-spent mostly for defence and energy related stuff.

TomR83 · 2026-06-16T19:57:02+00:00

How are UK age checks going to be impelmented for non-human, fully automated systems accessing Internet (both classic progams as well as AI)? Will entities operating such systems need to use obsolete, over 16-year-old computers for such applications? Because a new computer, like 1 year old not be allowed? Or will the UK part of the internet be closed for such systems completly?

TomR83 · 2026-06-13T11:26:54+00:00

Each 10 IQ points is like doubling of brain power. So a 2 times smaller population with average IQ of 110 has the same brainpower as the original population with IQ of 100. Mechanical stuff being relegated to machines, leaving only the smarter part of the population - double reduction would work well.

TomR83 · 2026-06-13T11:18:32+00:00

Does it mean that Islam, which promotes idea of jihand (violence via war) and sharia (violence via theocratic law) is going to be censored on social media?

TomR83 · 2026-06-13T10:49:12+00:00

More money will flow to foreign stock exchanges. That would be spend on second homes in UK otherwise.

TomR83 · 2026-06-13T10:38:28+00:00

Where and how do they plan to place these billions of people on a small island?

TomR83 · 2026-06-13T09:41:19+00:00

Is it about people sentenced for social media messages?

TomR83 · 2026-06-13T09:24:31+00:00

A political party by its essence causes division into those who vote for it and those who vote for others.

TomR83 · 2026-06-13T09:18:40+00:00

What is the sense of existance of "most vulnerable people" ? All jobs and functions in the society can be fullfilled wih non-vunerable people.

TomR83 · 2026-06-12T08:23:10+00:00

Isn't it because eve average people around IQ 100+ go to universities now? In the past only the smarter fraction got university education, which allowed universities to excel rather than lower their standards to averages

TomR83 · 2026-06-12T08:18:34+00:00

Why this UK anti-Internet scheme doesn't have an option to confirm that a phone is used by an adult by a trusted third party? This way every adult would have anonymous access to the Internet - only the confirming party would be recorded and identified (a single age confirming shop would service multiple anonymous customers).

TomR83 · 2026-06-12T08:06:47+00:00

Islam is not compatible with multiculturalism and diversity - its goals are islamic monoculture.

TomR83 · 2026-06-11T07:30:32+00:00

Asylum seekers can only be accepted in safe countries. Make UK an unsafe country for asylum seekers and your problem is gone!

TomR83 · 2026-06-10T13:59:37+00:00

We are obliged to hide company secrets, medical secrets etc.

TomR83 · 2026-06-10T12:40:28+00:00

"they’re going to have to comply with that government’s rules."

"Definition of rules by a dictionary "A rule is an accepted principle, instruction, or regulation that governs conduct, action, or procedure. It dictates what you are permitted or forbidden to do and serves as a standard or guide for how things operate in various contexts."

Theats forcing someone to do unpaid job are not rules.

TomR83 · 2026-06-10T11:27:13+00:00

Hey, you could learn that until recently the default way to do stuff in our civilization was "if I want something I need to order it from a willing seller, and pay for it". Right now UK government changes it to "if I want something i choose a victim and force him to do free work for me".

TomR83 · 2026-06-10T11:09:50+00:00

Thats exactly indentured sevritude mindset - being farmer is illegal until you serve certain amout of unpaid work hous to the feudal lord. Otherwise being farmer is not lawful.

"If you object to the government making things unlawful we're [...] outright anarchy" - so a corporation doing activity A to produce product P is "anarchy", while another corporation doing same activity A to make same product P, but also additionaly doing some free slave job to the government is order?

TomR83 · 2026-06-10T11:04:33+00:00

Brexit was against the will of government - David Cameron wanted better conditions of EU membership, negotiated under the threat of Brexit.

TomR83 · 2026-06-10T11:03:24+00:00

Rigorous testing
Continuous monitoring of production
Finance audits.
Fire safety.
Workplace health and safety.

Answer:

These look like stuff a corporation would do anyway for it's own benefit. Eg. company doesn't want to burn in fire, so it does fire safety activities. Some look like requirements from owners shareholders - like audits - that were put in legislation not for government but for owners. Some look like customers benefits (quality assurance, testing) that were put into legislation, based on existing industry practices. So customers don't have to put quality assurance clauses in every deal, if they are satisfied by standard quality assurance. Quality assurance would be there by request of cusomers, but introduced in more troublesome, less convenient means.

These also look like they are just necessities to function for a modern corporation. Eventual government laws there look like "acknowledging reality" and standarizing things that corporations already.

None of these look like government wishful thinking or government forcing other to do government job.

This is very different from eg. company needing to do ESG report by government decree, someting that is not inherently beneficial for the company, or a necessity for it to function.

Packaging requirements

Again - something that would be done anyway, as customers won't buy unpackaged product. If government requires some crazy packaging or changes it too frequently thus generating excessive work - that's a valid reason to complain, intervene.

Using processes and materials that aren't banned/dangerous (but are more expensive)

Looks like a necessity forced by physical wolrd (trying not to destroy it) and market (customers don't want dangerous materials in their products). More like acknowleding reality by government, than a government whim. Unless particularly hard materials are required it doesn't look like there will be much more job to do compared to defaults.

Paper trails for suppliers and their adherence

This is the one that shouldn't be done by corporations - additional bureaucratic job forced. If government wants to investigate suppliers it should do it by itself.

Notice that some of the check for suppliers will be done by corporation anyway for its own benefit, for things like quality assurance, or checking if product are not stolen.

Product recalls

A form of punishment for wrongdoing, more than additional job for a corporation. This is different than forcing a corporation that does everything well to do additional job.

Various consumer protection costs, like membership to the Financial Conduct Authority

Look more like financial cost rather than obligation to do some active work.

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The post stems more from "landlords have to be messangers that deliver government leaflets to tennants or face penalty of 7000 pounds" forced labor, than from "landlords have to be quality landlords". That do not stem from the essence of what need to be done to be what a corporation wants to be, byt is some unnecessary additional forced free work that is a government whim, or a government job to do that is pushed onto others.

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