this is your brain on it being ok for governments to regulate the Internet :(
Comment on Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip
Quicky@lemmy.world 2 months agoschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Quicky@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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.
Quicky@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not actually complying with UK law, it’s removing it from the equation so it doesn’t have to. I don’t begrudge the decision though, it will have been a difficult choice to make. That said, it’s a sledgehammer approach to self-censorship, as a response to an inability to comply.
Like I say, I don’t have an issue with Lemmy.zip being unavailable in the UK. But I do think it is potentially damaging for Fediverse uptake to promote a default instance that is unavailable to such a large number of users.
For comparison purposes, the UK easily has the second highest number of Reddit users by country. It is a remarkable decision to isolate that potential market by default.
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Wow. Thanks for sharing.