Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules

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• twinnie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Thank God we’ve got the government here to protect us.

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  • NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Can’t let the children have access to an Encyclopedia. Too dangerous. We have ChatGPT to give them all the information they need.

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    • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They might look up alt content like “balls” or “boobs”

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• Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They should just block UK traffic like the porn sites do. This is an excellent way to lose a resource the government regularly uses.

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  • Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bold of you to assume the govt won’t just use the same VPNs they’ll ban the proles from having.

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    • cryptTurtle@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      yeah pretty much the way it's always been. Rules for thee but not for me

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Bold of you to assume the people advocating for this know how to use a VPN.

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• Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  To download Wikipedia to your computer for offline use, see here: kiwix.org/en/

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  • maam@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Check out the federated Ibis and data hoard where you can!

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, it’s an older version from 2024. Last I heard there were some issues with the software used to create these.

    Also the images are lower resolution.

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• Mesa@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Guess who becomes much easier to brainwash and control when the kids of this generation don’t have access to unfederated information and education outlets?

  The adults of next generation!

  Fuck the new world order.

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• Paddzr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They’re gonna lose next election harder than Tories and I’m not even going to feel sorry for them.

  It’ll fuck me and my family over big time. More than Brexit did. I was always powerless to change anything here, they’ll vote reform and they’ll go even harder on this shit. Thatcher 2.0 incoming.

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  • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You’re blaming the current government for a law that was brought in by the previous government.

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    • Paddzr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m sorry, which government told us they’re not going to discuss this even after the very system designed to bring things up to their attention passed the threshold?

      You don’t get to hide behind “it was done before we got here” when you’re actively pushing for it.

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• funkyfarmington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I sure wish Wikipedia would just grow a pair and outright block UK IP addresses.

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  • misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    United Kingdom’s new wiki article:

    The United Kingdom (colloquially the U.K.) is a stupid butthead voyeur fetish state located in the Northern Hemisphere…

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• SpaceShort@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is it just me or is this Labour government more far right than the previous Tory one?

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  • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is actually a Tory policy, where the law was passed by the previous Tory government and came into force under labour.

    That’s not a get out of jail card, because they could have stopped it, and instead choose to continue it, just like they continued the NHS anti trans policies. Or the way they choose to continue the same austerity budget rules.

    At this point, I’d say they’re exactly as right wing as the Tories.

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    • SpaceShort@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So it just seems like they’re further right because every successive Tory government is further right than the previous one and Labouare just Tories?

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  • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Labour have always had a bad track record of civil liberties. Although as the other reply notes this was a Tory policy initially, I’ve not gone over the proposed amendments to see if they’d have implemented it slightly differently (I suspect not). Unfortunately policies like these are both popular and free for the govt to implement so it’s literally a no-brainer for MPs to vote through without thinking about consequences.

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