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The solution is to geoblock the UK, prohibit sales to UK citizens, and strictly forbid any use of your software by UK citizen anywhere in the world.
by jonathanstrange 2y ago
The solution is to geoblock the UK, prohibit sales to UK citizens, and strictly forbid any use of your software by UK citizen anywhere in the world.
- ksajadi 2y agoas a way to coerce the UK government into changing course or are you suggesting it as some sort of punishment... i don't quite get what you mean by "solution"
- Kim_Bruning 2y agoPresumably to comply with the law in an expedient fashion. Sometimes, when the law, your code of ethics and/or the license(s) you are operating under conflict, your best/only option under those given circumstances might be to not operate at all .
- harvey9 2y agoLots of US sites geo blocked EU countries as we were not their main audience and it saved them the effort of complying with gdpr.
- jonathanstrange 2y agoIn my case it is to prevent UK lawsuits or at least being able to show in court that everything was done to comply with UK laws. The products I'm working on use end-to-end encryption and I cannot afford to remove that feature just because one country doesn't allow it. I would love to offer them to UK citizens, of course.
- Forgeties79 2y agoSeen instances on Lemmy deal with it like this because they feel it’s too difficult to comply even if they could understand what compliance looks like. Total UK user bans.