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Reports claim that VPN usage has surged in the UK after the introduction of the Online Safety Act 2025 on July 25 ...
Many users have turned to virtual private network (VPN) software in the wake of the UK's Online Safety Act – but how safe are ...
In her first interview since regulators began enforcing elements of the Online Safety Act that require websites to verify ...
However, the Act’s broad definitions and interpretations have created friction online. Some users complain that mandatory age ...
The UK government says it has no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act, as opposition to it grows in the wake of the ...
Many experts, technologists, politicians, and everyday users have already raised concerns about the negative effects these ...
The UK Online Safety Act requires age verification for anyone seeking to access "adult" content, even if it's educational.
A law requiring UK internet users to verify their age to access adult content has led to a huge surge in VPN downloads—and has experts worried about the future of free expression online.
New laws will be used by the Government to censor content posted online, a majority of the public believe.
The UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, declined to offer an attributed on-the-record comment about the new age checks to The Verge. In unattributed statements to other outlets, it said it was “now ...
VPNs are highly unlikely to be made illegal in the UK any time soon, regardless of the amount of handwringing over moves to ...
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Online Safety Act is a bad joke

The UK now has their Online Safety Act (OSA) and Australia is blindly following in their footsteps. In the UK it didn't take very long for the tech aware under-18s to bypass all the rules and regain ...