Imgur is now geoblocking the UK

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• chaosCruiser@futurology.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And so it begins…

  The era of global web comes to an end and we enter the age of fragmented local webs.

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  • monogram@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I2P is where hosting will end at this point

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    • chaosCruiser@futurology.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just looked it up. Turns out I2P is a pretty interesting technology. This new rabbit hole will take a while to explore.

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• xxce2AAb@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So, how’re those fascist policies working out for you, Britain?

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  • cynar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Making a lot of us angry. Unfortunately we are not as good as the french at complaining about it.

    We also have the issue of this party being the better of the 2 viable options.

    There’s talk of a new party forming, to the left of modern labour. Unfortunately, in a FPTP system, that can split the vote and make things worse, if done poorly.

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• twelvety@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But... Hasn't imgur been SFW only for a while now?

  Maybe they got sent one of offcom's shitty letters and are kneejerking to prove a point. Bit poor there's been no statement from them before doing this.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They block porn afaik, but not journalism. Journalism is illegal in the UK so that is a problem of course.

    Seriously tho what i mean is war footage, Gaza footage, images promoting “proscribed” groups, etc.

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  • a4ng3l@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s unrelated to porn at least from what the ICO has disclosed. They are concerned about how Imgur handles children data’s. When a child subscribes and uploads data to their services. Which is obviously SFW. But one should take special care about those data which apparently Imgur doesn’t do. Like about everyone else though based on what I see around me… But sometimes regulatory bodies like setting examples and sending messages.

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    • twelvety@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It's funny though, don't you think? None of the other European countries have been blocked, and they have the exactly same GDPR and child protection law that the ICO claims it is pursuing.

      I personally think that Imgur banned the UK for simple business reasons. We don't generate enough income for them to bother adhering to GDPR plus the OSA. As Europe presses ahead with similar censorship legislation I imagine it will ban them too, or any of those that do pursue it for GDPR breaches.

      This is fragmenting the internet is of course is bad for everyone.

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When I visit imgur.com while on a VPN pretending I’m from the UK, it returns a “Imgur is temporarily over capacity, please try again later” error. Toggling it off and on goes from working fine to that same message over and over, so they either are having issues on servers that they are directing UK traffic to - which is possible - or they’re just pretending to be having capacity issues to not raise suspicion of not wanting to comply.

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  • ClathrateG@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m getting this response from a uk IP:

    
    {"data":{"error":"Content not available in your region."},"success":false,"status":400}
    

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is what I get when viewing from the UK

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• robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  why? they already nuked the porn

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• p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What the hell is this website? Why isn’t this a news link?

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have no idea, but it was one of a few forums that reported it first before news sites even were aware of it. I posted follow-up here lemmy.zip/post/49951704

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