Will Basschat survive the Online Safety Act?

[TimR]

10 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Nowhere near as complicated as using excel (and a lot cheaper obviously), go to your internet router, select VPN, select on, put a username and password in and press apply. Hey presto, a 'Real' vpn!

 

 

 

I can't do that on my home router. So would have to actively and deliberately go out and buy a new router and set it up.

 

You're being very obtuse, your average home PC user will not be doing this. 

 

Your ISP will still be doing the routing. 

Edited 8 hours ago by TimR

[prowla]

9 hours ago, Wolfram said:

Ok... clearly very few people here (and not singling the Basschat community out - by extension, the general public) have the faintest idea what a VPN is.

 

Well - it depends upon your definition of "very few".

 

50 minutes ago, TimR said:

 

I can't do that on my home router. So would have to actively and deliberately go out and buy a new router and set it up.

 

You're being very obtuse, your average home PC user will not be doing this. 

 

Your ISP will still be doing the routing. 

(But then again...)

 

Edited 7 hours ago by prowla

[tauzero]

11 hours ago, Wolfram said:

A Virtual Private Network is what just about every single mediium- to large-sized company in the world uses to allow employees to connect to their 'internal' networks from their laptops or phones when they are not physically in the office. That's it, nothing more sinister. A VPN is something you connect to from 'external' so that you appear 'internal'.

 

Anyone, anywhere in the world can set up a VPN. It's not something that can be made illegal, any more than setting up your own Internet server; it is a networking tool used by millions of companies.

 

And given that VPN traffic is encrypted, stopping the use of VPNs would prevent anyone working for firms that want any security working from home.

 

Should anyone with a router that doesn't have a VPN option want one, there's some reasonably easy instructions for installing a VPN server on a Raspberry Pi. Not as simple as pressing a button on a router though.

[TimR]

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/review-of-the-computer-misuse-act-1990/review-of-the-computer-misuse-act-1990-consultation-and-response-to-call-for-information-accessible

 

 

[SpondonBassed]

TLDR

 

Basschat has seen me and many others through times of crisis both nationwide and personal.  Sure it is a Bass oriented forum but it has become so much more over the years to so many people.  There is no shortage of knowledge about our favoured instrument in its many forms and at all levels of expertise here.  Off Topic annoys some folk but no-one is asking them to look at it.  It is their choice.

 

The site has been very well run throughout the time I have been here.  I don't even visit any of the other big fora, much less pay a sub.

 

...

 

Hell no!  I won't go.

 

I will join any reasonable campaign to prevent this proposal from killing what we've got.  Too much regulation is tying the good guys' hands behind their backs while the bad guys just work around the regs and carry on with impunity.

 

Is there any link that I may have missed in earlier posts for people to express their dissatisfaction to Dotty the Gov?  Please point me at it if there is.

 

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by SpondonBassed

[jazzmanb]

i use a local football forum with a 14000 plus active members and its a big concern for the mods on there and all its users 

Hope a solution is found 

half the forum is any topic you wish from favourite sandwich to depression and suicide and its been a lifeline for a lot of local folk 

 

 i get you need Policing of groups but this is far too clumsy 

[jazzmanb]

i use a local football forum with a 14000 plus active members and its a big concern for the mods on there and all its users 

Hope a solution is found 

half the forum is any topic you wish from favourite sandwich to depression and suicide and its been a lifeline for a lot of local folk 

 

 i get you need Policing of groups but this is far too clumsy