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.

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    2 days ago

    Were you never a child? I formatted my family pc and reinstalled windows xp in 5th grade, and used a proxy to circumvent the schools online filter in 7th grade.

    Children are not as stupid as you seem to think

    VPNs also accept many anonymous payment methods that happen to be easily accessible to children, like gift cards. And free VPNs exist

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      Where there is a will there is a way, I guess.

      Still, a possible ban on VPNs affects way bigger group of business and adult users than the number of tech savvy kids.

      Where should the line be drawn? How much rights should everyone have to give up so that little techie Billy can’t hack his way to see some titties?