Due to the UK’s Online Safety Act implemented earlier this year, accessing my Bluesky DM’s now means I need to allow a third-party service to scan my face, ID, or bank card. Understandably, that gives me the willies. So I can either simply never look at my messages again, whip out the likeness of Norman Reedus, OR I can log on via a VPN. However, the days of this vastly preferable third option may be numbered.
US states Wisconsin and Michigan have already proposed VPN crackdown bills aiming to close off this workaround—and the UK may be looking to follow suit. Online privacy nonprofit the Electronic Frontier Foundation recently criticised this strategy, taking aim at Wisconsin’s bill in particular, saying that blocking the use of VPNs is “going to be a disaster for everyone.”
This state is going to hell quick, they just recently banned any vape/juice that is not approved by the FDA, which is very expensive, so of course the only stuff available is the stuff made by big tobacco and the shit by the company that makes stuff for folks in jail which I refuse to support; lots of small companies went under. We’re STILL waiting on legal weed while our neighbors have had it for years, if that hemp ban goes though more businesses will be gone. Smh. This legislature is fully captured by big business, I have faith only in Tony Evers.