Age verification lands in Italy − here’s how it affects VPN users
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This is sickening. Restricting access should be done at the ISP level and should be opt-in for those with kids. A password can be set by the parent.
We all really know this is about control.
Not at the ISP level, at the DNS/hosts file level.
"Please verify your age"
Please fuck off.
But I need to keep track of you so I can better control you!
The headline is vert clickbaity : it does not affect VPN users (the law forbids age-gated websites from promoting VPNs as a circumvention), and the whole article is just an ad for VPNs
Didn’t read the article, as you said it’s just an ad for VPNs. But one way this affects VPN users is that now you can’t VPN into Italy to use a service without hitting the age verification prompt. That just sucks!
This would have been a (if not the only) good point to make in the article considering the title. But I guess this would have taken space away from ads
Tbh I would generally welcome a VPN-industrial-complex as long as it doesn't result in a small ring of big names lobbying for systematic monopolistic dominance as to crush anything that doesn't require PII... but I'm sure commercial and state interests would converge :/
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