themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoStop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers toldwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square163fedilinkarrow-up1440arrow-down19
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minus-squareacargitz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·edit-27 hours agoStreisand effect: the BBC is telling every last kid that VPN is exactly the way to circumvent the prohibition.
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·6 hours agoBecause the goal is to outlaw VPNs. To do that they need enough children to use VPNs to make it credible enough.
minus-squareYiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoAs if something being credible has ever stopped a politician from acting.
Streisand effect: the BBC is telling every last kid that VPN is exactly the way to circumvent the prohibition.
Because the goal is to outlaw VPNs. To do that they need enough children to use VPNs to make it credible enough.
As if something being credible has ever stopped a politician from acting.