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The trouble here is that the law is so crazy that third parties allowing users in the relevant jurisdiction to access the site could result in the site still be
by AnthonyMouse 2y ago
The trouble here is that the law is so crazy that third parties allowing users in the relevant jurisdiction to access the site could result in the site still be liable, so then they would have the same reason to block your proxy service if a non-trivial number of people were using it.
To do any good you don't want to cause grief for the victims of the crazy law, you want to cause grief to its perpetrators.
- ivanmontillam 2y agoThen I guess that'd be a use case of technologies like Tor or I2P, properly, securely used.
- bazzargh 2y agoWorth mentioning that the lawyer who runs onlinesafetyact.co.uk, Neil Brown, has its onion address in his profile. https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil http://3kj5hg5j2qxm7hgwrymerh7xerzn3bowmfflfjovm6hycbyfuhe6lrqd.onion/ http://3kj5hg5j2qxm7hgwrymerh7xerzn3bowmfflfjovm6hycbyfuhe6l...
- Mindwipe 2y agoOfcom have said that they consider geoblocking to be sufficient in writing, so at least they would probably lose any legal case brought against them.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoWhich would in turn cause the whole thing to be a farce, because then the solution would be for every site to geoblock the UK and then every person in the UK to use a proxy.
- Mindwipe 2y agoIt is.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoThe problem here is that's what's going to happen instead of what ought to happen, which is repealing the law. And then some administration some years from now is going to stop ignoring the absurdity of it and decide to start enforcing the existing law against any subset of the ~everyone arguably now violating it that they deem to be wrongthinkers.