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Good morning 🌥️ The UK government, helmed by a generation accustomed to using rice as an all-purpose remedy, attempted to prevent kids (under 18s) from accessing NSFW content on sites like Reddit, Bluesky, Twitter, and Pornhub, by requiring age verifications via the new Online Safety Act.

But the enforcement of said Act is going about as well as that one antipornography machine the Ugandan government purchased.

Sign-ups for VPNs increased by 1800%, so the government will have to throw the whole internet away.

—Gloria Mbabazi, Shem Opolot

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