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UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs
(reclaimthenet.org)
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this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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The house of lords is nobility and unelected as well
You have me there on the unelected, but they're (mostly) not nobility (anymore).
Welcome to the UK, where everything is fucked and there's loopholes everywhere.
It was strong enough to stop fascists in 1935 though, very few countries can claim to have better democratic safeguards