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Super intrigued but annoyingly I can’t view imgur here

• abanana 10mo ago
  Indeed, part of me wants to not use imgur because we can't access it, but a bigger part of me fully supports imgur's decision to give the middle finger to the UK after our government's censorship overreach.
  • wizzwizz4 10mo ago
    It was a really clever move on Imgur's part. Their blocking the UK has nothing to do with the Online Safety Act: it's a response to potential prosecution under the Data Protection Act, for Imgur's (alleged) unlawful use of children's personal data. By blocking the UK and not clearly stating why, people assume they're taking a principled stand about a different issue entirely, so what should be a scandal is transmuted into positive press.
  • homebrewer 10mo ago
    It blocks many more countries than just the UK because it's the lowest effort way of fighting "AI" scrapers. imgur was created as a sort of protest against how terrible most image hosting platforms were back then, went down the drain several years later, and it's now just like they were.
    • supern0va 10mo ago
      It turns out that running free common internet infrastructure at scale is both hard and expensive, unfortunately. What we really need is a non-profit to run something like imgur.