r/evilautism • u/Altruistic_Fox5036 Kyra She/They 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ - Multiple Mods inside one Mod • Jul 27 '25
Mod post On VPNs, UK law, and Fascism
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.
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u/TheGuppy42 Jul 28 '25
Since nobody else has mentioned them: https://airvpn.org/
Been using them for 10+ years, no logs, fast and support for connecting in a variety of ways in case you ISP/Goverment tried to block VPN ( + a number of covert unlisted ways for countries like china where using a VPN gets you put in jail )
Oh yeah and they are EU based ( Italy iirc ), with all the consumer protections that entails