Comment on Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance?

jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• swizzlestick@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  UK is implementing law for age verification on nsfw content, that’s the jist of it.

  Some services are choosing to simply not serve the UK rather than deal with the faff and/or the privacy concerns. lemmy.zip where I am from is one of them.

  Blame lies squarely with the UK gov & Online Safety Act. It’s a shit law made to pander to the ‘think of the children’ types that are incapable of parenting, also coming with the bonus of grift and doxxing concerns by companies that move in to provide the service.

  I don’t blame any site operator that chooses to simply not play. VPN goes on, normal service resumes.

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  • juliorapido@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “It’s a shit law made to pander to the *‘think of the children’* types that are incapable of parenting”

    This.

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    • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Whenever someone says that there law is to protect:

      • the children
      • old people
      • the vulnerable
      • …

      You know that it’s full of hidden shit.

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    • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      UK has always been a nanny state. Surprised it took them so long.

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      • BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I lived there for 10 years from 2000, it seemed to come uo every year or two whil I was there - fuck them

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s also several hundred pages long. Fair few web forums are closing because of it if they are UK hosted too.

    It would be interesting to get a legal opinion on what about it actually impacts lemmy instances tbh. Obviously one option is to go “lol fuck off” if the UK complain and you are not in the UK.

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    • Jerry@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They can notify the hosting company that the server is violating UK law, the registrars, and payment services. This is the fear for sites not hosted in the UK. There are inter-country agreements to support civil actions.

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Doesn’t that sort of thing take quite a bit of time though? And they need to find out about it too.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The EU is also adopting similar regulations.

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    • aasatru@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Are you talking about chat control?

      It was rejected once, and will be rejected again. At least if people mobilize a bit against it. There's a long way from Commission proposal to law.

      Equating the proposal of a law with the adaptation of it is highly misleading. The EU is a complex institution where different bodies are pulling in different directions.

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      • N0x0n@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I think they are talking about age verification for something like porn ^^'!

        For the chatcontrol thing, it’s only a matter of when and not if.

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• PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The UK enacted age verification, the instance said fuck that. So, more or less, the UK's fault.

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• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  UK, this is hitting basically all websites. Any site hosting adult content has to verify user ages for anyone in the UK, and instead of doing that many smaller sites are just geoblocking the UK. Easy to get around with a VPN, still absurd it’s happening.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t think they should geoblock UK instances, though. As the instances are responsible for their users.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There is a lot more to it than just age verification for porn too. I do wonder what this will look like after several months and if they will push it or if the law just gets ignored in the end.

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