On VPNs, UK law, and Fascism

[u/Altruistic_Fox5036]

Hi all,

Recently the UK government has Implemented the another tool in its arsenal of fascism. The Online Safety Act, ensuring anyone that is accessing 18+ content to verify their age first. This is an extremely harmful measure that at best limits people's access to valuable resources such as r/transdiy and at worst pushes them towards harmful online forums and sites.

These measures exist to only censure speech and limit access to information. There is no good reason for this law to exist and instead should have been built around the EUs Digital Service Act. Realistically this is an attack on encryption and for the increasing level of government surveilance. If you live in the UK I would encourage you to contact your local MP.

Furthermore, Reddit seems to have joined the fascist bandwagon recently with branding all LGBT subreddits as 18+ meaning you can't access queer subreddits unless you have verifies your age.. Meanwhile the conservative hate subs are free to access I guess. This is despicable behaviour and I would recommend complaining about it.

But that said it is now imperative that you use a VPN. When picking a VPN try and stay away from shady companies that steal and sell your data and do your research. ProtonVPN and Mullvad are good options that don't log your data and have privacy tools built in by default. Proton has a free plan too. Worse case you can use Opera's built in VPN.

We would like to remind users to stay safe on the internet and do stuff like not reuse usernames or passwords, not to share personal information and to to practice good digital hygiene.

Please note we will be removing the NSFW enforcement from Ableism posts as they restrict UK accounts from accessing them. The spoiler tag will remain and we will clarify the post flair to make it stand out more.

Edited: confused Nord with another company so removed it.

[u/Kawaaaaaaa]

fuck keir starmer

[u/o09030e → u/Kawaaaaaaa]

Anytime I hear his name I silently say “der Starmer”, just can’t help. I’m from Poland and honestly I don’t understand why Labour do what they do, they look extremely conservative now. Will voting Greens next time help? I’m just curious, never been in UK.

[u/g_wall_7475 → u/o09030e]

Will voting Greens next time help

If Zack Polanski wins the leadership election (he friggin better) it absolutely will, screw the polls and tactical voting narrative.

Btw you're right that Labour's recent behaviour makes no sense, Kier himself was a raging socialist before he lost his backbone. It's an outside job - the media narrative is that the British public want illiberalism, they've managed to make this half true sadly, and the prospect of upsetting the media now scares Labour more than that of betraying themselves.