"The road to online hell is paved with good intentions," said Melisa Tourt in The Critic – as we're discovering, now that the ...

COMMENT: The government’s new bill is hopeless, writes . We do need protections for children, so don’t repeal it – rewrite it ...

Apps that disguise a user’s location have surged in popularity after the UK introduced age-verification rules as part of its ...

The measure is putting up roadblocks for people who want to read about world news, listen to music on Spotify, chat on ...

Marc Andreessen, one of the world’s most powerful venture capitalists, has complained to Downing Street about the UK’s Online ...

Age verification is needed but government, rather than tech companies, should be responsible for developing tools ...

Many users have turned to virtual private network (VPN) software in the wake of the UK's Online Safety Act – but how safe are ...

We explain how to sidestep age verification on websites in the UK. Use this simple trick to avoid age check on adult sites in ...

Reports claim that VPN usage has surged in the UK after the introduction of the Online Safety Act 2025 on July 25 ...

VPNs are highly unlikely to be made illegal in the UK any time soon, regardless of the amount of handwringing over moves to ...

The Online Safety Act's broad and vaguely defined scope has led to widespread and seemingly indiscriminate censorship.

And so could it be with the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA) and its accompanying age verification process which came into being ...