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afiori | 1 month ago

then you are not using any vpn service marketed or provided in the UK. if you were to sell access to your VPS to others then you would have to do age verifications on them maybe.

maybe it is still illegal, IDK, bu likely due to other laws (eg a generic "it is illegal to use workaround for X")

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afiori|1 month ago

then you are not using any vpn service marketed or provided in the UK[0]. if you were to sell access to your VPS to others then you would have to do age verifications on them maybe.

[0] maybe it is still illegal, IDK, bu likely due to other laws (eg a generic "it is illegal to use workaround for X")

chrisjj|1 month ago

> then you are not using any vpn service marketed or provided in the UK.

Irrelevent. See:

must apply the child VPN prohibition to the provider of any relevant VPN service which is, or is likely to be—

(i) offered or marketed to *persons in the* United Kingdom;

(ii) provided to a significant number of persons

melevittfl|1 month ago

The definition section of the amendment defines a "relevant VPN service":

>“relevant VPN service” means a service of providing, in the course of a business, to a consumer, a virtual private network for accessing the internet;

I think it would be a significant stretch to say that a provider that provisions a VPS instance is a "business providing a virtual private network".

Just because you could run a VPN, it's not the VPS provider that is offering a VPN service.