3: There's a small mention of this on the Wikipedia page for imgur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imgur
So maybe a heads up if you're a website owner with lots of UK users to review where your images are hosted?
Or just stick your middle finger up at the OSA and geoblock us in the UK. I wouldn't actually blame you!
2: Turns out they both use imgur to host their images.
imgur has decided from the 30th September to geoblock UK users in response to the UK's OSA.
For all I know, imgur's owners could be really shady and the OSA and the Information Commissioner's Office could be in the right. But it does seem like another unintended consequence of the OSA and again, smaller websites and communities are caught in the cross fire.
1: Browsing a couple of websites recently, I found that the images were being blocked because I was in the UK. "The Online Safety Act Strikes again!" I thought but why these images?
The two websites were a vintage Masters of the Universe site and the Linux Mint blog. Apart from giving away what I was thinking about at the time (Linux! Toys!), neither are hardly racy subjects.
the UK's #OnlineSurveillanceAct really made a lot of people mad.
now they're going to make digital ID and social credit scores mandatory too
Yes yes, I know it's actually called the #OnlineSafetyAct but it's not about protecting anything.
Imgur Blocking UK Highlights Age Verification Regulatory Catch-22
Imgur has blocked the UK after complaints about its violations of privacy of its age verification system.
https://www.freezenet.ca/imgur-blocking-uk-highlights-age-verification-regulatory-catch-22/
#Censorship #News #Privacy #AgeVerification #fine #ICO #Imgur #OnlineSafetyAct #UK
Cyber Waffle: “They Changed The Online Safety Act” ; this guy has done several decent videos, I wish he wasn’t doing the hoodie cyber anon-schtick, but the content is mostly sane…
A reasonable 8 minutes of time, allowing for advertising:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ZB8XIHpHs
#ageVerification #censorship #cyberFlashing #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #surveillance #ukLabour #vawg #vpns
🚨 Imgur has blocked all UK users after the ICO signaled a fine under the Online Safety Act.
⚠️ No uploads, no logins, no embeds → UK forums now show broken placeholders.
⚡ Workarounds: VPNs.
This raises bigger questions: Is this compliance… or digital censorship?
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