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Now I’m not allowed to say “key detail”??
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> waves hands things government censorship called it for what it is
The Online Safety Act is clear-cut censorship but that's not why Imgur left the UK. They were facing fines for violating the UKs data protection laws, specifically a set of rules that were introduced years before the OSA was even passed. Their parent company hasn't pulled any of their other services from the UK either, which you'd expect them to do if their goal was to protest or avoid the OSA.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo
If you follow the links to earlier articles you get to this one about fining TikTok: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65175902
"There are laws in place to make sure our children are as safe in the digital world as they are in the physical world. TikTok did not abide by those laws." ... "When you sign up you can be targeted for advertising, you can be profiled, your data contributes to an algorithm which feeds content," said the Information Commissioner.
So even before the OSA, the idea was: social media sites using algorithmic feeds must prevent children's access, and just asking "are you over 13" isn't enough. That's a demand for age verification, in practice.
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> a cheap fanless box with several network ports running linux Do you remember the name of the product?
Qotom is a good chinesium brand for small cheap fanless multi-NIC PCs: https://qotom.net
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The "online safety act" introduced mandatory age verification starting in July 2025. The government announced "plans to fine Imgur after probing its approach to age checks and use of children's personal data" in September 2025 [1] Are you telling me those were unrelated? How are you going to fine a website over age checks without the law that requires age checks? [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo
Seeing as the investigation was by the ICO instead of OFCOM, yes, very much so. Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
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Oh, I guarantee you that this has not been touched by any AI. I used to use emdashes all the time, then people thought those were AI telltale signs, so I stopped. I loved making lists. Same thing. Now I’m not allowed to say “key detail”??
From Italy (no VPN) I've been getting «{"data":{"error":"Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later."},"success":false,"status":403}» for any imgur url for maybe an year
Imagine having to install a vpn to browse the internet in a first world country.
"Is this overkill for viewing the occasional Imgur image? Probably." From the last couple of weeks of researching some stuff, it makes perfect sense - I keep stumbling across blogs and documentation that uses Imgur, and it's really quite annoying that I can't see the screenshot or image that is being referenced. It hasn't /quite/ hit the point to put something in place, but this is super helpful for the final straw -…
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Oh, I guarantee you that this has not been touched by any AI. I used to use emdashes all the time, then people thought those were AI telltale signs, so I stopped. I loved making lists. Same thing. Now I’m not allowed to say “key detail”??