Comment by turblety
7 months ago
It's clear to me, it's a huge risk for any company to allow access to UK visitors at this stage. All companies should be blocking all UK visitors. It's just too much risk for them to take.
The fault is obviously an incompetent and authoritarian UK government, but that's what the UK overlords have agreed.
It's not specific to the UK: many developed countries are cracking down on Internet businesses. There's going to be an awful lot of regulation, and it will be incompatible between different countries. The one-model-fits-the-whole-world style of business is over: you're going to be confined to national borders again.
The opinion polls are clear: the normies want this.
> The opinion polls are clear: the normies want this.
Giving normies the vote was a mistake.
So only snobby elitists get to vote?
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Allowing the media to be controlled by government interests, which the normies follow blindly as thinking is hard, was the bigger mistake.
Opinion polls are bullshit and just an indicator of propaganda effectiveness.
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Found Moldbug's alt
Where do you get your conclusion from?
If you mean the opinion polls, I don't have any to hand, but there have been a few articles submitted to /r/ukpolitics since the Online Safety Act took effect detailing opinion polls showing that the UK Government's regulation of internet content has been well-received by the wider public (although the userbase of that subreddit has vociferously disagreed).
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shouldn't it be the other way round? if the UK doesn't like something a non-UK company is doing it should be them that go through the trouble of blocking it.
If I have a website I'm pretty sure I'm bound to break some random country's law without knowing
Answering my own question, I guess it's exceptionalism of the powerful countries where they can just bully you into following their law
> shouldn't it be the other way round? if the UK doesn't like something a non-UK company is doing it should be them that go through the trouble of blocking it.
They're clearly working up to this; it's what happened with Pirate Bay, etc.
They don't want (correctly) unfavorable comparisons to China's "Great Firewall" made, which most Western governments have lambasted in the past, so there's a PR/Politics side of it too.
Why should they do anything when they can push the burden of compliance onto you?
It would be much better to not block them rather serve them a single screen that explains why the rest of the site is unavailable to them citing the specific laws that make the action necessary
Now:
> {"data":{"error":"Content not available in your region."},"success":false,"status":400}
"status": 451
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7725
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It’s hilarious that imgur is still returning JSON errors even when connecting with a browser. I guess their dev team have never heard of the Accept header.
(My residential IP is blacklisted for some reason and I always get a JSON error message from them)
So GDPR, which protects people from companies abusing personal data (which this case is about, not the online safety act) should be repealed?
(no, its not the cookie law either.)
No because GDPR is better implemented and there are clear and reasonable guidelines to follow. This is just clueless policy makers fucking around.
The ICO are there it enforce GDPR, and other data protections.
They are a quango, rather than policy makers
Again they are not OFCOM, and they didn't make OSA, thats very much down to the previous tory government