Post B7N0bHN3SNqBorf7I0 by neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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 (DIR) Post #B7N0bGWEcladB2wvxY by neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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       A random thought.Let's suppose that this daft proposed UK social media ban for children, and perhaps age verification for everyone, is coming in 6-12 months.Some parents will want their children to still enjoy online social lives, without either child or parent giving up their privacy. Same for child-free adults, who will be swept up in this.I wonder what tangible steps such people could do now, to mitigate if not remove this coming risk.Downloading from YouTube to build a local archive?Looking at local gaming servers, to share with friends but not the public?Small, controlled, social media instances which might be in scope but may not be the subject of enforcement?(Changing the status quo and bringing in UBI, educating people about changing the law to address harmful functionality, not child users etc.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B7N0bGrrKMt4G74CfI by neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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       Encourage more friends to blog / self-publish, rather than just post on social media?A local copy of Wikipedia (which might get exempted, because bad publicity if not) and other resources?Potentially - although perhaps short term - looking at total or selective network level traffic routing via VPNs?(Obviously none of these things help less technical families, but I am posting this in the fediverse, so...)
       
 (DIR) Post #B7N0bH9aGT4795MMIC by luca@lucamatei.com
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       @neilMy bet is on VPNs. They're already mainstream and ads for them around every digital corner. Easy to buy and easy to runAnd there are so so many VPN providers that they won't be legally banned. Best case the good providers comply and the bad ones don't.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7N0bHN3SNqBorf7I0 by neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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       @luca The UK already has plans for age verification for VPN services, so I am hesitant about that.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7N0bHZ6jZTwQFIk4m by Rairii@labyrinth.zone
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       @neil @luca which I suspect will be as effective as ofcom's current enforcement efforts.I've seen so many weird implementations too. For example, SSH proxied over cloudflare websocket support (cloudflare doesn't actually check if it's really a websocket server and happily entunnels any TCP connection), which I think was mainly done so to work around "zero rating" systems on mobile networks and get a usable internet connection with zero pay as you go credit/data.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7N0bIEEGgNKTmXaAi by neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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       I am sure that there would be all sorts of fun to be had with a solar-powered, low-power, server, with Wi-Fi and some storageLocal shared computing resources, available wirelessly, but not via the Internet. I last saw this as the "LibraryBox" project.Perhaps time to look again into mesh networking too.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7N0bJ0nM7DuuPGMs4 by neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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       Making more services available in .onion space?No need for a static IP or a domain name, multiple different services and .onions on the same small box, etc.Tor Browser is available readily for many platforms.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7N0bJZtFdIQfFgOZc by neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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       For closed .onion services, friends could set up onion authentication. Closed to anyone without a key, and easy to revoke a key/user as needed.