It’s not lemmy.zip that’s blocked in the UK, they (lemmy.zip) block every visitor from the UK as they don’t want to get in trouble for violating the UK’s Online Safety Act.
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ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoLemmy.zip is blocked on a national level for the UK?
mbirth@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Have lemmy.zip defederated from feddit.uk as well? If not, why not? Is there a legal difference?
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
There is no need for us to defederate, the law is around accessing a specific website and the onligations to ensure the content on that website doesnt fall under the OSA.
It doesn’t matter where that content comes from, just that UK users don’t see specific content. Therefore we don’t show UK users any content.
That’s kind of a simplified summary, but hopefully makes sense.
It only impacts lemmy.zip because I am a UK resident and run the site, so am liable under the act. Otherwise I’d do what everyone else has done and ignore it.
khorovodoved@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Wouldn’t feddit.uk itself be categorized as a UK user for this purpose?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
that is okay feddit.uk is blocked by my default blocklist on the router. I’ve started to add it to the white list a few times but no I think I’ll let fate sort it out.
Quicky@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Wow. Thanks for sharing.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
this is your brain on it being ok for governments to regulate the Internet :(
Quicky@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not sure that the answer to a government’s regulation of the Internet should be an individual’s blocking of access for an entire country. Seems like 2 sides of the same coin to me.
greybeard@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
This is them, to the best of their ability, complying with UK law. If more people tried to comply, perhaps the UK government would realize how foolish their Online Safety Act is and do something about it.