Prominent backbench MP Sarah Champion launched a campaign against VPNs previously, saying: “My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.

"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.” And the Labour Party said there were “gaps” in the bill that needed to be amended.

  • JustTheWind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    193·
    2 days ago

    Just adopt a CCP style social credit system already. Why all of this pussyfooting around being a totalitarian, censorship focused, surveillance state? Just do it. Give the good people of UK a solid reason to be a little bit more French again.

    • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
      132·
      2 days ago

      There has been a widespread misconception that China operates a nationwide and unitary social credit “score” based on individuals’ behavior, leading to punishments if the score is too low. Media reports in the West have sometimes exaggerated or inaccurately described this concept.[4][5][6] In 2019, the central government voiced dissatisfaction with pilot cities experimenting with social credit scores. It issued guidelines clarifying that citizens could not be punished for having low scores and that punishments should only be limited to legally defined crimes and civil infractions. As a result, pilot cities either discontinued their point-based systems or restricted them to voluntary participation with no major consequences for having low scores.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

      • Bubbey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        17 hours ago

        As an American, it always made me laugh when we made fun of China’s “Social Credit Score” when we literally have one already that determines whether we can buy houses/cars/etc lol

      • Limonene@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        What about all the people blocked from air travel due to low Social Credit? Are you saying that never happened?

        • yogurt@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          1 day ago

          People can be banned from airlines but they get banned for the same reasons they do in the US, like getting drunk on the plane and punching someone. Or like how the US bans people who owe child support from getting a passport, judges in China are allowed to ban people with unpaid child support or big enough unpaid fines from state owned airlines until they pay.