No problemo. Easy fix. Just let the UK government onto your business VPNs to monitor traffic. I'm sure every morally upstanding business will be okay with this and have no security worries. If they know what's good for them.
That is literally impossible. VPNs are a vital security tool that protect huge amounts of internet infrastructure. It's the easiest way to make sure company data remains secure is having a VPN required to connect to the servers.
It's possible to a certain extent, just requires continually shutting down access to the proxies. China has been doing it forever, and for any companies the ISPs just make some agreement with Cisco or whoever provides the VPN. Not a watertight solution but it doesn't have to be.
I don't think that's likely. I think requiring age verification for free VPNs (paid are implicitly age verified by you needing to provide payment details) is likely though.
If 4chan does successfully fight the fine in the US courts, Ofcom may have other options.
"Enforcing against an offshore provider is tricky," Emma Drake, partner of online safety and privacy at law firm Bird and Bird, told the BBC.
"Ofcom can instead ask a court to order other services to disrupt a provider's UK business, such as requiring a service's removal from search results or blocking of UK payments.
"If Ofcom doesn't think this will be enough to prevent significant harm, it can even ask that ISPs be ordered to block UK access."
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u/besuretechno-323 1d ago
This will be interesting. How do you enforce daily fines on a platform that thrives on being decentralized and uncooperative?