Lobsters blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act

zimpenfish wrote: post #4

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #2

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> the right propaganda of the leftists being against technology is so easy to justify OSA is a product of the last Tory government who, I can promise you, were not at all "leftists".

The problem is deeper than any political party in Europe. Europe wants this.

Re: Lobsters blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act

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Post by ss64 » Sun, Feb 23, 2025, 7:41 PM UTC

Symbiote wrote: post #5

URL should be https://lobste.rs/s/ukosa1/uk_users_lobsters_needs_your_help...

Im guessing they linked the archive so that when Lobsters is geoblocked UK users will still be able to read it.

Re: Lobsters blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act

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Post by ddtaylor » Sun, Feb 23, 2025, 7:43 PM UTC

Block and route around failures.

Re: Lobsters blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act

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Post by soulofmischief » Sun, Feb 23, 2025, 7:46 PM UTC

The simple answer is to not recognize the authority of the UK government when you don't have a physical presence there, as long as they are failing to protect their citizens with sane, ethical digital policy.

Tough pill to swallow for some, but there is no difference between irrational demands made from the government of the UK, and say, North Korea. It's everyone's choice which side of history they'd like to be on.

Re: Lobsters blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act

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Post by do_not_redeem » Sun, Feb 23, 2025, 7:47 PM UTC

ELI5: Why should a US-based site, hosted on US soil and run by a US citizen, care about laws in all the hundreds of other random countries located thousands of miles away?