Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law.

• archchan@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I feel like if most websites chose not to comply, there’s fuck all the government could do tbh. What are they gonna do? Fine big tech with a slap on the wrist again? Try to shut down every indie hentai site hosted in the Congo or something? Please… it’s all absurd.

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  • Patches@ttrpg.network ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They would start up their own Great FireWall of [Blank]

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• TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Or have your site taken down by your own country because of its international obligations. You still have to abide by your own country’s interpretation (and political alignment to) of foreign laws.

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  • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I doubt that the USA would recognise and take down websites for not following Ofcoms requirements.

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    • TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Perhaps? But you can get extradited from the US to the UK, and there’s all sorts of dumb agreements for international evidence and standing precedent. I don’t expect the current administration to forge new ground here, but navigating the waters of international law is byzantine at the best of times.

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      • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I really, really doubt that a website owner based in USA would be extradited to the UK for not complying with UK local law with how they run their website. That's absurd.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Civil action.

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• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The website would be blocked at the ISP level, I’m not sure what the UK government can do beyond that.

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