Imgur is one of the world’s largest image-sharing communities, originally created in 2009 by Alan Schaaf as a gift to Reddit users. The service grew into a massive platform, boasting over 60 billion memes, GIFs, and images viewed by its 150 million monthly users. Now, it has pulled out of the UK following a warning of potential fines from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Users in the region trying to access the site are met with the error message: Content not available in your region.
Follow up to: https://lemmy.zip/post/49898832
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to have both. Alcohol and tobacco should not be freely available to children while relying instead on “conversation”.
UK law already allows blocking websites; the technical means is there. So I don’t know what you think the increased risk of censorship down the line actually is.