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.
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.
Zombie@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Imgur made the choice to block UK users instead of attempt to comply with our ridiculous laws
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Different laws though. IIRC lemmy.zip is because of ID age verification and Imgur because of child data harvesting.
flamingos@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
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.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Why hasn’t the rest of the EU followed though? GDPR applies to all of us.
lutent@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
mjr@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
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.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
4chan just ignores UK requests. Site still works fine.