Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

Post by dfgdfd » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 3:01 PM UTC

Post by Quothling » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 5:42 AM UTC

lachiflippi wrote: post #145

Quothling wrote: post #140

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Maybe, maybe not. It'll be signficiantly harder for the EU to target decentralised services with no organisation behind them. It'll be far easier for them to put every major tech site which accepts VPN traffic into the box of organisations they can still fine. I'm not entirely sure the wider population will really care all that much once the dust settles. The internet works in China, and people are happy with it, and…

> I think we'll sadly see most major tech sites adopt whatever age verification tool the EU builds. No, we won't. Tech doesn't care about users. We saw this when Valve delisted thousands of games in Germany instead of implementing the (completely anonymous) age verification process we've had built into our ID cards for years.