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Have we reached breaking point yet?

Yesterday I wrote about plans in the UK to force YouTube to prioritize "approved" media sources over regular creators when serving up suggestions or search results to viewers.

Today I read that they're also planning to age-gate VPN services. This would require VPN companies to obtain proof of age before signing up customers -- because some of those may be under-16-year-olds attempting to sidestep the age-gating now placed on social media sites.

In Australia, the government is in the process of doubling the fines associated with under-age access to social media because they've discovered that four out of five underaged users are flouting the new rules.

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Forums are Down

Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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