Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act rules

Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think only the UK does this now, the EU is in planning phase. Even the countries that have dictatorship don’t do age verification for Wikipedia. The UK seems to be going through a phase similar to when book were banned because of content and considering that many people read online books they will definitely affect digital book readers.

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, the similar law for EU has just been made.

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• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We all feel bad for each other. Europe and North America are going down the fucking toilet fast. We’re all implementing authoritarian laws, we’re just in varying stages of doing so or prioritising one thing over another.

  UK is banning porn sites, wikipedia, and protest, US is deploying the national guard to the streets and has ICE acting like the Gestapo. EU is lagging behind the UK but looks to be on track for implementing the same things. Not to mention the widespread indirect support of a genocide.

  Things are bad for us all. But I support the efforts of people everywhere who are fighting to make the future look a little less bleak.

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• EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  To be honest, we already pitied them for the food and weather.

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Off topic but food in some parts of the UK has got pretty good. Whenever I return to North America from the UK it’s a step down in quality of food. Their supermarkets have some really nice stuff, there is lots of good international food, and even the fast food is way better.

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    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can’t help but notice you didn’t refute the part about the shite weather

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      • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Mostly the weather is too hot now.

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    • isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Depends where in Canada, I never had a complaint about bad food in Montreal, but Winnipeg’s grocery stores left me wanting a bit.

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