We live in the UK. She didn't go any further than this. I got her to download TOR and use the "old.Reddit" trick to bypass this so it was only mildly infuriating for her in the end

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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Fun fact: I can't see the screenshot as I'm in the UK and your instance has taken the maximally paranoid literal meaning of the OSA and blocked access just in case anything's accidentally not flagged as NSFW.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The idiots here are your lawmakers and their supporters.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You know how everybody blames boomers for various things, which had nothing to do with them, they were merely victims of the capitalist corrupt systems they lived under? This is your generation's failure to address the needs of the future. Good luck.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It’s really weird for you to start flinging divisive shit at someone who wasn’t being ageist to begin with, but if you wanna fling shit, start by telling me the average age of the parliament that passed this law.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    taken the maximally paranoid literal meaning

    Them people won't get hung on a technicality. You have to be nuts not to be paranoid these days.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    With how the law is written, if you think anyone might ever make a mistake (likely), think the government might ever bother going through the hassle of enforcing it (probably less likely if you're not running a big website), and don't have loads of spare money to pay huge fines with or to pay an age verification service with (likely), then blocking the UK is the only way to be compliant. It doesn't require a technicality. The law just doesn't have any leeway for honest minor mistakes or small hobbyist websites.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Images should load from your local Lemmy instance right?

    But checking now I see you, OP and the com are all from the same instance. So I’m confused.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    No, OP is lemmings.world, not lemmy.world.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Oh shit, my bad. Was reading too fast.

    But still, the image should load from your local instance right? So in that commenters case, lemmy.world right?

    Edit: at least on my instance, it appears to go through a proxy on my local instance:

    https://images.lemmy.zip/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmings.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F3b9a4c4b-3079-4e67-a5e2-0cd49074d81f.png
    

    Do some other instances direct link images?

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