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Hopefully many more companies do this and British internet users migrate to use of VPNs. This will apply maximum pressure on the government to reverse these par

Hopefully many more companies do this and British internet users migrate to use of VPNs. This will apply maximum pressure on the government to reverse these parochial laws.

AlecSchueler 1y ago
I'm not a fan of the law but the idea of foreign businesses pressuring the government still puts a bad taste in my mouth.
chrisjj 1y ago
... or to ban VPNs.
KaiserPro 1y ago
its not the online safety act, its basic data protection, which means they are probably breeching the Californian equivalent
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Barrin92 1y ago
>This will apply maximum pressure on the government to reverse these parochial laws Whatever the annual revenue of imgur was is now up for grabs for any British entrepreneur willing to build an image hosting site and unless British people have an innate preference for exporting their data to the US they'll likely stick with that. In other words, it's a good opportunity for the domestic tech sector, that's what happens in most cases when foreign companies tend to be blocked.
- qwoppos 1y ago
  The value of imgur isn’t really in being able to upload images there, it’s access to all the images uploaded from the rest of the world. Especially historical uploads, say, a turorial or a travel log using imgur as reliable image host. Locally created and operated british website aimed at brits makes sense when it’s local news or local services or whatever. Local image hosting site that serves only (primarily?) brits seems of very questionable utility unless you somehow become a big hub for outsiders… at least until $other_country demands UK stop tracking their children or whatever excuse they’ll use.
- physarum_salad 1y ago
  Yeah let us find random ways, that we never used to care about, to ban all foreign websites so a "brit" can take over haha. This is quite authoritarian and corporatist and worthy of some criticism from more libertarian minded onlookers.

Hopefully many more companies do this and British internet users migrate to use of VPNs. This will apply maximum pressure on the government to reverse these parochial laws.

AlecSchueler 1y ago

I'm not a fan of the law but the idea of foreign businesses pressuring the government still puts a bad taste in my mouth.

chrisjj 1y ago

... or to ban VPNs.

KaiserPro 1y ago

its not the online safety act, its basic data protection, which means they are probably breeching the Californian equivalent

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Barrin92 1y ago

>This will apply maximum pressure on the government to reverse these parochial laws Whatever the annual revenue of imgur was is now up for grabs for any British entrepreneur willing to build an image hosting site and unless British people have an innate preference for exporting their data to the US they'll likely stick with that. In other words, it's a good opportunity for the domestic tech sector, that's what happens in most cases when foreign companies tend to be blocked.

qwoppos 1y ago
The value of imgur isn’t really in being able to upload images there, it’s access to all the images uploaded from the rest of the world. Especially historical uploads, say, a turorial or a travel log using imgur as reliable image host. Locally created and operated british website aimed at brits makes sense when it’s local news or local services or whatever. Local image hosting site that serves only (primarily?) brits seems of very questionable utility unless you somehow become a big hub for outsiders… at least until $other_country demands UK stop tracking their children or whatever excuse they’ll use.
physarum_salad 1y ago
Yeah let us find random ways, that we never used to care about, to ban all foreign websites so a "brit" can take over haha. This is quite authoritarian and corporatist and worthy of some criticism from more libertarian minded onlookers.