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Oppan North Korean Style. In Poland we had no access to "western" electronics since 1989 because we had been part of the "Warsaw Pact" i.e. subordinate to USSR. This was hard, so I pity for you guys in UK
> In Poland we had no access to "western" electronics since 1989 I think you meant "until 1989"
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> In Poland we had no access to "western" electronics since 1989 I think you meant "until 1989"
Nope. He's typing that from an old Amiga over a 600 baud connection.
Oppan North Korean Style. In Poland we had no access to "western" electronics since 1989 because we had been part of the "Warsaw Pact" i.e. subordinate to USSR. This was hard, so I pity for you guys in UK
It's hardly a comparable situation to be honest
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> The US has always claimed jurisdiction on foreign-hosted but US-accessible content. There’s been multiple cases where non-US gambling websites have had their domains confiscated by the American government because they have American users, going back about 20 years.
Doing business in the United States (by having customers there and examining money) will subject you to their laws.
The arguments are very similar. You could claim that only accepting fiat currency should count, but that would open a massive loophole that would be trivial to exploit
Good riddance. Imgur is a cancerously awful website. express.co.uk isn't much better for that matter.
Does anyone ever actually use Imgur as a website though? I generally use it to upload a photo then send someone a link. It's no different than dropbox in my mind, except just limited to photos.
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> The parents have been getting a free pass all this time I totally agree but the UK government – particular Labour – doesn't want people to take responsibility really, because that would take from their own 'power'. There's nothing the UK loves more than a stupid population hooked on benefits and devoid of education, critical thinking and financial freedom.
Not the UK, Labour.
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Wikipedia gets a lot of donations from the uk. I’m not sure how many Brits would continue putting £10-100/mo into a charity that explicitly doesn't operate in their borders.
Any stats on this? I'd be surprised if the number of Brits putting £10-100/mo into Wikipedia greatly exceeds 10.
Best I can find
$ 132,466.01 Africa
$ 4,902,373.13 Asia
$ 49,423,340.29 Europe
$106,546,895.77 N.America
$ 2,509,299.46 Other
$ 6,082,217.76 Oceania
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The DMCA absolutely applies. If you follow it, which includes no induction or willfull infrigment, you never rise out of civil liability to criminal. The FBI gets involved once you're past that.
This is not true. The DMCA’s “safe harbor” provisions do not provide any sort of bulwark against criminal prosecution. Only against civil liability and injunctive relief.
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It’s rather ironic, because the very kind of “social credit score” that we were told the Chinese are subject to is has existed in the West and is being implanted in a far more sly way with things like tone policing; arbitrary accusation of rule breaking of ever increasingly narrow, convoluted, and subjective rules enforced by faceless mods and surely son by AI bots, bans, and even extraordinary lengths to hunt down a…
Welcome to Schufa in Germany, the “social credit score” without which is almost impossible to rent or buy in most German cities, if the report (which most folks hardly know how it gets calculated) doesn't have the right numbers on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schufa