{"id":16296,"date":"2026-06-23T13:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16296"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:56:54","slug":"next-on-the-ban-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16296","title":{"rendered":"Next on the ban list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government is <em>already <\/em>getting so much pushback on next year&#8217;s blanket ban of U16s having access to, well, almost anything on the planet that the Department of Wishful Thinking &amp; Magic Wand Waving is now seeking to ban VPNs. Let&#8217;s not tell them GCHQ, MI5, the Cabinet Office, MoD, DwP, DfE and almost every educational Trust in the country (to name but just a few users) all use VPNs. Let&#8217;s just sit back and watch how this plays out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"888\" height=\"741\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/VPNs.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/VPNs.png 888w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/VPNs-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/VPNs-768x641.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 888px) 100vw, 888px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government is already getting so much pushback on next year&#8217;s blanket ban of U16s having access to, well, almost anything on the planet that<\/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-16296","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\/16296","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=16296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16301,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296\/revisions\/16301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}