Yeah, Imgur blocked the UK in response to getting fined by the ICO for illegal data harvesting. It’s honestly mad so many people seem to take their side.
The UK GDPR and EU GDPR are technically distinct now, so maybe one the ways the UK has modified it cause this. Or EU country regulators just haven’t opened up an investigation for whatever reason.
As well as forcing porn sites to ensure all their users are adults, the Online Safety Act also added a bunch of mostly sensible rules about what you can do when your users are children that go beyond what the GDPR does.
Honestly, I don’t mean to take the side of an image hosting site that makes itself profitable with malicious methods. I just genuinely didn’t know this. Regulating internet traffic just seems quite logistically demanding to achieve without revoking what makes the internet, well the internet. A thing that spreads information and connects people of all backgrounds together to share. Not to take any side or position, it’s just a thought.
Isn’t blocking the UK a type of compliance? Especially if the UK agents hadn’t been in touch. So rather than refuse or fight, imgur caved. Don’t expect them to defend users.
Imgur made the choice to block UK users instead of attempt to comply with our ridiculous laws. So has Lemmy.zip
Different laws though. IIRC lemmy.zip is because of ID age verification and Imgur because of child data harvesting.
Yeah, Imgur blocked the UK in response to getting fined by the ICO for illegal data harvesting. It’s honestly mad so many people seem to take their side.
Why hasn’t the rest of the EU followed though? GDPR applies to all of us.
The UK GDPR and EU GDPR are technically distinct now, so maybe one the ways the UK has modified it cause this. Or EU country regulators just haven’t opened up an investigation for whatever reason.
As well as forcing porn sites to ensure all their users are adults, the Online Safety Act also added a bunch of mostly sensible rules about what you can do when your users are children that go beyond what the GDPR does.
Honestly, I don’t mean to take the side of an image hosting site that makes itself profitable with malicious methods. I just genuinely didn’t know this. Regulating internet traffic just seems quite logistically demanding to achieve without revoking what makes the internet, well the internet. A thing that spreads information and connects people of all backgrounds together to share. Not to take any side or position, it’s just a thought.
Isn’t blocking the UK a type of compliance? Especially if the UK agents hadn’t been in touch. So rather than refuse or fight, imgur caved. Don’t expect them to defend users.
4chan just ignores UK requests. Site still works fine.