Minister says Farage’s plan to repeal Online Safety Act shows he is siding with ‘extreme pornographers’ over children – UK politics live

Technology secretary Peter Kyle says Reform UK leader’s latest comments demonstrate he is ‘not on the side of children’One of the main arguments used by Reform UK yesterday to criticise the Online Safety Act highlighted the surge in people signing up with VPN providers. People are using VPNs to bypass age verification restrictions on websites.In his Sky News interview this morning, Peter Kyle accepted that VPN use was increasing and that people were using VPNs to get round the new rules in the Online Safety Act.Some people are finding their way round [the legislation]. Very few children will be going actively out there searching for harmful content.Now, if we can take a step forward, which is 60, 70, 80, maybe even 90% forward when it comes to actually stopping harmful content getting into kids feeds, I’ll bank it. That’s a good day at work.If you want to overturn the Online Safety Act you are on the side of predators. It is as simple as that. Continue reading...

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