>VPNs make Online Safety Act useless, Farage tells grieving father whose son was blackmailed into taking his own life
>VPNs make the Online Safety Act useless, Nigel Farage has told the grieving father of a 15-year-old boy who took his own life after being blackmailed by predators online.
>This morning, George, whose 15-year-old son Christopher took his own life after being abused online, questioned why Farage would want to repeal legislation designed to help children.
>Christopher had been playing online game Roblox when a pop-up appeared, leading him to a private chat.
What an idiot this father is. The likes of Roblox go well beyond what the Online Censorship Act requires. It did so before the law even had its first reading. If their systems didn't stop this, then this worthless law certainly won't.
>The person on the other side of the chat began asking the 15-year-old to perform a number of challenges.
>They began innocent enough, eating cornflakes fast or running up the stairs, but quickly descended into something much darker.
>He was blackmailed into staying awake for nights at a time, forced to watch grizzly horror films for hours.
>The teenager was eventually blackmailed into taking his own life, just weeks before his sister’s wedding.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/exclusive/online-safety-act-nigel-farage-vpns/