🚨 First the social media ban, now the UK government wants to restrict VPNs 🚨

VPNs are a vital cybersecurity tool for businesses, politicians, journalists and families to protect data and communications.

Banning or requiring digital ID checks before buying VPNs would increase cybercrime risks and expose IP addresses to predators.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2217934/vpn-ban-table-july-labour

#vpn #socialmediaban #ageverification #ukpolitics #cybersecurity #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol

VPNs help people stay safe and secure online.

If adults use them to by-pass ID checks, it's because they don't trust unregulated age verification providers with their data.

We mustn't bulldoze cybersecurity with another authoritarian attack on the open Internet.

Sign the petition #ProtectVPNs in the UK ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-protect-vpn-use-uk

#vpn #socialmediaban #ageverification #ukpolitics #cybersecurity #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol

🚨 First the social media ban, now the UK government wants to restrict VPNs 🚨

VPNs are a vital cybersecurity tool for businesses, politicians, journalists and families to protect data and communications.

Banning or requiring digital ID checks before buying VPNs would increase cybercrime risks and expose IP addresses to predators.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2217934/vpn-ban-table-july-labour

#vpn #socialmediaban #ageverification #ukpolitics #cybersecurity #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol

A social media ban won't fix online harms.

That's because the business model creating them is left untouched.

It just makes every user do an ID check to prove they’re over 16.

Instead we should tackle the attention capture economy of targeted ads and personalised algorithms.

Sign our petition ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/break-big-tech

#socialmediaban #onlinesafety #socialmedia #stopKillingInternet #ukpol #ukpolitics #privacy #censorship #bigtech

A social media ban won't fix online harms.

That's because the business model creating them is left untouched.

It just makes every user do an ID check to prove they’re over 16.

Instead we should tackle the attention capture economy of targeted ads and personalised algorithms.

Sign our petition ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/break-big-tech

#socialmediaban #onlinesafety #socialmedia #stopKillingInternet #ukpol #ukpolitics #privacy #censorship #bigtech

"Every failed attempt to make children safer online is followed by more surveillance and censorship.

Children have rights too and these policies will harm their free expression and privacy rights, and push them into less regulated spaces."

🗣️ ORG's James Baker on the under-16s social media ban.

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/15/britain-plots-digital-bedtime-after-kicking-under-16s-off-social-media/5255341

#socialmediaban #ukpol #onlinesafety #stopKillingInternet #ukpolitics

Via Everyone Hates Elon, London:

Imagine having enough wealth to end world hunger 166 times over but you chose not to (and chose to incite violence instead)

#EveryoneHatesElon #FuckElon #USpol #TaxTheRich #immigrant #racist #ukpol #HateSpeech #ChildPorn #BelfastRiots #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #ElonMusk

Via Everyone Hates Elon, London:

Imagine having enough wealth to end world hunger 166 times over but you chose not to (and chose to incite violence instead)

#EveryoneHatesElon #FuckElon #USpol #TaxTheRich #immigrant #racist #ukpol #HateSpeech #ChildPorn #BelfastRiots #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #ElonMusk

@therightarticle

"“The price of admission to the internet will now be ID checks,” said Big Brother Watch’s Coulson. “Ending anonymity online is a step that authoritarian regimes can only dream of. We all deserve privacy, but political dissidents, journalists, and victims of coercive control will find the need to out themselves especially terrifying."

#IDchecks #ageVerification #socialMedia #UKgov #Starmer #Labour #UKpol

@therightarticle

"“The price of admission to the internet will now be ID checks,” said Big Brother Watch’s Coulson. “Ending anonymity online is a step that authoritarian regimes can only dream of. We all deserve privacy, but political dissidents, journalists, and victims of coercive control will find the need to out themselves especially terrifying."

#IDchecks #ageVerification #socialMedia #UKgov #Starmer #Labour #UKpol