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 14 hours ago
Imgur made the choice to block UK users instead of attempt to comply with our ridiculous laws
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Different laws though. IIRC lemmy.zip is because of ID age verification and Imgur because of child data harvesting.
flamingos@feddit.uk 13 hours 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 13 hours ago
Why hasn’t the rest of the EU followed though? GDPR applies to all of us.
lutent@lemmy.zip 12 hours 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 14 hours 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 12 hours ago
4chan just ignores UK requests. Site still works fine.