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I don't know if you mean that or are being sarcastic, but either way, this is not the kind of comment we want here, so please don't like this. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
Lobsters blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act
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#12Related, a list of other sites which are blocking the UK or shutting down altogether rather than deal with OSA:
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#13They also block Brave browsers entirely. I tried reading into it, but it appears to be one of those "programmer personality quirks". The fellow that runs the site appears to think Brave is a scam of some sort, and just decided to block the entire browser.
Oh well, I'll stick to HN.
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#15Is a decentralized approach to communication an effective bulwark against this type of legislation? As is mentioned in the linked thread, the act itself is extremely hard to parse, so maybe it's not even possible to know the answer. Just curious if anyone has done research from that angle.
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#16URL 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.
That's a good point, but the thing to do in that case is post the original URL and add an archive link in the thread. I've done that now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43152546).
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#17ELI5: 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?
Because they can be arrested and extradited to UK. Not a high chance, but not zero. And a realistic one is to be arrested while traveling in Europe and extradited to UK.
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#19The 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.
Just to play devil's advocate, the relationship between the EU and the US compared to North Korea is not at all similar. I think that's why this is listed as an option:
> A statement from the US Department of State that it does not believe the law applies to American entities and a commitment to defend them against it.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
And the problem runs much deeper than even that. Spectre wants it.