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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
by turblety 1y 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.
- dylan604 1y agoIt 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
- nickslaughter02 1y agoNow: > {"data":{"error":"Content not available in your region."},"success":false,"status":400}
- kps 1y ago"status": 451 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7725 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7725
- dwood_dev 1y agoI find it interesting that there was no mention of Fahrenheit 451, the very reason they picked that number. They did at least put a thanks to Ray Bradbury.
- an0malous 1y agoSeems like they were trying to keep the reference low key, maybe to increase the odds of its acceptance
- dboreham 1y agoSame rule applies to any use of 42.
- AceyMan 1y agohttps://http.cat/451 https://http.cat/451
- lemonlearnings 1y agoShould it be a client error "vote differently" or a server error "this server is not licking the boot" ;)
- sph 1y agoIt’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)
- lentil_soup 1y agoshouldn'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
- physicsguy 1y ago> 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.
- Root_Denied 1y agoThey 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.
- constantcrying 1y agoWhy should they do anything when they can push the burden of compliance onto you?
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- cjs_ac 1y agoIt'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.
- BeFlatXIII 1y ago> The opinion polls are clear: the normies want this. Giving normies the vote was a mistake.
- cudgy 1y agoSo only snobby elitists get to vote?
- hactually 1y agoyeah damn, i guess that's it. That's the dichotomy. You're either an elitist snobs or a normies. No nuance, no qualification.
- widerworldweb 1y agoI know; we should make being able to vote contingent on understanding the word "nuance". There; now you have the best of both worlds ;)
- cudgy 1y agoCalling people “normies” is elitist and snobish, so there is a dichotomy.
- sph 1y agoAllowing 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.
- KaiserPro 1y agoSo 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.)
- j_maffe 1y agoNo because GDPR is better implemented and there are clear and reasonable guidelines to follow. This is just clueless policy makers fucking around.
- KaiserPro 1y agoThe 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