@jb55 how does this work? #AskNostr

That’s up to them, TOR is always an option, so is VPN. But I am sure they’ll do crackdown on them (VPN services) too

I'm in the UK. I use a vpn. So its an easy work around for me. For those providing websites that falls under UK Online Safety Act, then yes you have to force those from uk visiting your website to do an age verification. Its ridiculous. I'm not providing any data for this purpose. Its just another way to collect people's data which will eventually be misused and leaked and in the end its the individuals that give over their personal data that will suffer, by having their privacy invaded, and security compromised. 😱

Australian government said they would sue VPN operators for allowing Australians to use their services. UK will probably do something similar

If a user's goal is to hide their location then Nostr is not a great choice of protocol. Every relay connection requires the relay to know the user's IP, and that's mandated by the protocol itself, regardless of what the relay does or does not do with this info. And the user needs multiple relays, often random, often out of their control. All relays use DNS relying on certificate authorities and public registrars, registries. Then add in all the media servers (for a single not you need the relay and the media server, and maybe the mirrors too). Then add in the CDN serving the media itself. It's basically standing on a hill and shouting in every direction. And VPNs don't help much. Most VPN use is trivial to detect now (especially on phones), and VPNs cut both ways, a user could be out of the UK and get a UK VPN and now the relay or media server has to treat them like they're in the UK, with appropriate guardrails. So the obligation on Nostr relays, media servers, everything, is very heavy, regardless of VPNs Basically if location privacy is a major concern then a user would not choose Nostr, they'd choose something else.

Will the UK Online Safety Act force content providers on nostr to censor those from the UK if they don't provide age verification? Ultimately that's what its all about. If I post something from the UK on nostr that the UK government don't like can they force the relays to censor me?

Nostr isn’t a platform though right? It’s a protocol - so is it affected by this regulation?