In short
- The token of NYM increased by 12% after the UK started maintaining the online safety law, which activated a peak of 6,000% in the VPN question.
- The law forces age verification for online content and insists on the search for privacy tools to circumvent limitations.
- Proponents of privacy say that the law makes mass surveillance possible under the guise of protecting children.
The NYM protocol smoking rose on Tuesday by 12% after the demand for a VPN in the UK, more than 6,000% spoke in response to the online security law, which now requires age controls on adults and social media websites, according to a new report from VPNmentor.
Nym, the native token of the decentralized VPN and Privacy platform with the same name, traded on Tuesday at $ 0.05, according to Coeningecko. The value in value also follows the launch of the iOS app from NYMVPN the day before.
“The reason there is an increase is because the UK has accepted a poorly thought out online safety bill,” said Harry Halpin, CEO and co-founder of Nym, said Decrypt.
The Online Security Act is mandatory that websites for adults, social platforms and search engines implement age controls to block minors to gain access to pornography and other “harmful” content.
Companies that do not meet fines of £ 18 million (USD $ 24 million) or 10% of the worldwide annual income from a company, depending on which higher.
“This urge to force identity controls undermines the original promise of the internet: a free space for communication, anonymity and open information,” Halpin said. “People are understandably uncomfortable to share their identity with governments, companies, especially porn companies.”
To bypass such restrictions, virtual private networks coded internet traffic and rug them via external servers to hide the IP addresses of users and mask online activities.
As platforms started implementing limitations, British users turn to VPNs to bypass them.
The British peak reflects recent trends in Europe, where the use of VPN has increased to avoid online limitations.
In June, ProtonVPN saw the use in France rise by 1,000% in Switzerland after the country had blocked access to pornhub. ProtonVPN reported an increase of 1,400% in new registrations, in which it described as a “persistent” and more intense peak than during earlier restrictions.
According to VPNmentor, the question has now even surpassed the US, where similar age verification laws in at least 15 states-inclusive florida, Oklahoma, Utah and Texas-important VPN-Spikes have caused.
“We followed VPN questions in the US, where the Age Verification Act has been applied and noticed huge peaks, but nothing like this,” said a VPNmentor spokesperson Decodeer. “The highest they received was Florida with 1150% and Oklahoma with 1060%.”
This question, said VPNmentor, is reflected in VPN services that take the top spots in Apple’s App Store in the UK, where ProtonVPN takes the number one place and surpasses Chatgpt.
Despite this trend, Halpin warned that only trusting a VPN is not enough to remain anonymous in an increasingly supervisory world.
“Real privacy takes more than a VPN-it means that the use of browsers such as Brave, throwing away data-hungry software such as Microsoft’s and switching to encrypted messengers such as Signal or session,” he said. “It only takes an hour or two to set, and if you use crypto, know that your transactions are traceable without privacy -oriented tools.”
Halpin argued that the declared purpose of the law to protect children masks a broader agenda of State Supervision Masks.
“These technologies can be brought to the market as protective, but they are control tools. Politicians call it to” protect children “because no one wants to oppose it,” Halpin said. “But most legislators miss the technical concept – or the imagination – to provide the consequences.”
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