Wow :
"We have been clear that exiting the UK does not allow an organisation to avoid responsibility for any prior infringement of data protection law, and our investigation remains ongoing."
It's insane. They could be fined even after entirely leaving the country ?
This kind of malicious compliance is exactly what this dogshit Think Of The Children Act needs. Convenience is everything to the majority of population.
If other major sites and resources do this, then the pressure from the people impacted by it will force UK PLC to un-fuck this awful legislation.
The title is a little bit misleading, it's mostly about Imgur not adding the age checking that the UK's infamously disliked new law requires on possibly mature content.
Age verification is a notoriously difficult problem to solve in a privacy-respecting way, and Imgur is literally about unobtrusive image embeds so I doubt they could even make this work.
How long until parliament decides to push the undo button on this stupid law?
The only way this law stands is if they're being paid more to keep it than... oh shit.
Yeah, I just uninstalled the app. I barely went on it anyway, as I'd be a bit apprehensive about what thirsty content was currently trending.
I was wondering why so many stuff posted on Lemmy were just pictures saying "this is unavailable in your region"
Having broken assets reminds me of using the Web in China, when a lot of sites using Google Fonts had broken fonts. Lol.
These ads for VPNs are starting to get over the top.
What I wonder: are the majority of UK citizens OK with this law?
Not that it matters probably, as UK isn't a democracy in practice...
...it will be interesting to read the judgements when when they refuse to pay the fine. And I'd be willing to bet a fiver that a judge says that global blocking is not sufficient to remove a website from responsibility.
Thank goodness rimgo exists.
Blows my mind that this the UK is doing this. I hope it gets reverted at some point.
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