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.
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.
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.
Doesn’t that sort of thing take quite a bit of time though? And they need to find out about it too.
If the regular internet gets bad enough, there is still the dark web.
I highly doubt the US government would look likely on a US-based service taking down a US-based social media site because Ofcom complained to them about them not adhering to local laws. And for that reason, I very much doubt Ofcom would ever do that. They'd just block the site violating OSA.
The EU is also adopting similar regulations.
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.
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.
I wpuld like to know whoch EU law it is they are takling about, aa they proclaim pretty boldly that the Union is adapting "similar Regulations". I follow EU politics somewhat closely and I have no idea what they are talking about.
The Commission has published some guidelines and recommendations, which are as legally binding as a fart.
juliorapido@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
“It’s a shit law made to pander to the *‘think of the children’* types that are incapable of parenting”
This.
deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Whenever someone says that there law is to protect:
You know that it’s full of hidden shit.
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
UK has always been a nanny state. Surprised it took them so long.
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