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Is it though? Do you actually live in the UK? Do you want to know how often it happens in London?
by postexitus 6mo ago
Is it though? Do you actually live in the UK? Do you want to know how often it happens in London?
- rgblambda 6mo agoI live in the UK, though not in London. I can count on one hand the number of times a group of children asked me to buy alcohol for them. So it's not that it doesn't happen, but it almost never happens. Compare standing outside a supermarket, repeatedly begging passers by to commit a crime for you every time you want alcohol, with the one time action of installing a VPN client on your device and it's obvious one law is enforceable while the other is not.
- postexitus 5mo agoWhat? - I live in London, if you walk through a high street where there is both a secondary school and a corner store (if you say you don't know what that is, I will assume you are Trump) at around 3-4pm - you either get asked to buy cigarettes; or, refusing to do so you will get asked if you have any cigarettes. Without fail. You are trying to make it dramatic by saying it is a crime - in this context installing a VPN is as much a crime (arguably with more traces / evidence) as buying cigarettes for teenagers.
- rgblambda 5mo ago>and a corner store You mean corner shop. We usually say shop in the UK. When you said you live in London, I didn't realise you meant London, Kentucky. >You are trying to make it dramatic by saying it is a crime It is literally a crime. https://www.gov.uk/alcohol-young-people-law https://www.gov.uk/alcohol-young-people-law >installing a VPN is as much a crime It is not. There is no law against circumventing age gates by means of a VPN. It is illegal to promote VPN services to children as a means of circumventing age gates, but the act itself is not illegal.