The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force...
Nothing. As per usual this law hasn’t been thought out by the people in trying to inact it.
The law requires companies to introduce back doors into their systems. Most of the companies will officially just no longer offer their service in the UK.
There is an absolutely no provision under the current law to do anything about individual citizens or foreign nationals who circumvent (use a VPN) these rules. So basically you’ll find to just carry on as usual and pretend the law doesn’t exist. And what’s the UK government going to do? Nothing, because the companies don’t (won’t) officially have any presence in the UK, so there isn’t much pressure that can be put on them.
You might say that the government will ban VPNs but firstly that is problematic for companies, and secondly I don’t think they actually know VPN’s exist as a thing anyway.