{"id":15972,"date":"2025-08-28T15:19:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15972"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:56:42","slug":"the-online-safety-act-is-awful-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15972","title":{"rendered":"The Online Safety Act is awful (v2.0)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the predictability that Summer follows Spring and idiots are plentiful in this country, there are now calls from people with all the IQ of a tin of baked beans to ban (or, at least, put age verification) on VPNs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This statement of complete nonsense has come from the Children&#8217;s Commissioner for England. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, do these people not read up on &#8211; and familiarise themselves with &#8211; the very thing they are talking about regulating? Are these people inherently stupid, or do they just not understand the world they move around in? Do they not have experts they could call upon, people who they could ask &#8216;How possible is this thing I&#8217;m thinking of calling for and <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what would be the implications of doing it<\/span><\/em>?&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I guess the answer to those questions is, apparently, a resounding &#8216;no&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the predictability that Summer follows Spring and idiots are plentiful in this country, there are now calls from people with all the IQ of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15972"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16002,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972\/revisions\/16002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}