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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told (www.bbc.com)

submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by Ste41th@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This was bound to happen, and it’s ridiculous

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[–] Soot@hexbear.net 22 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Governments have persistently censored and surveilled the internet ever-more on the basis of "but the children :(" without ever doing a single actually good thing for the children like decreasing class sizes or letting parents spend more time with their children. Both of which would actually help address the issue.

This is the equivalent of abstinence education, just keep 'em ignorant and then when they finally see porn on superundergroundillegalporn.com.illegal it'll just be 10x worse.