Imgur has blocked the UK

[visibleman]

Pssh everyone knows who I am

 

[G J]

So what could happen when this hits the end game and its on the cards that the company that owns forum software many sites use decide the same as imgur or digital ID becomes mandatory and we all have to provide it to use forums.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Is Imgur blocked in North Korea?

 

[visibleman]

Is Imgur blocked in North Korea?

 

[aaronyuri]

Is Imgur blocked in North Korea?

NK are entirely segregated from the public Internet. They did accidentally push their DNS records into public DNS a few years back, which gave some insight into their Internet presence, but that was quickly reversed.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Ok cheers guys, good to know we are on par with them in this respect at least.

 

[Firestar_3x]

Ok cheers guys, good to know we are on par with them in this respect at least.

The UK has not blocked Imgur, Imgur has blocked the UK.

 

[BUDFORCE]

The UK has not blocked Imgur, Imgur has blocked the UK.

Hahaha.

That's even better lol.

 

[Crizzy]

I wondered why I was getting loads of images not loading in Reddit. They must be from imgur.

What a load of tripe.

 

[ChrisD.]

I wondered why I was getting loads of images not loading in Reddit. They must be from imgur.

What a load of tripe.

I have a policy based VPN called OSA where I put sites I wish to access but can't. Other methods exist, full blown VPN, proxy, browser tricks etc.

No doubt someone will maintain a list of sites on GitHub soon.

 

[Crizzy]

I do have a VPN I can use, it's just a hassle to have to fuss around.

 

[loftie]

Change the VPN destination.

I did, multiple times. Had US, Canada, Netherlands and Singapore IIRC.

 

[Uther]

Ok cheers guys, good to know we are on par with them in this respect at least.

The Taliban have just turned the internet off in Afghanistan. Such a bright future ahead.

 

[BUDFORCE]

The Taliban have just turned the internet off in Afghanistan. Such a bright future ahead.

I think our government is more or less the Taliban now anyway right?

 

[Cromulent]

I think our government is more or less the Taliban now anyway right?

Just wait for Reform . They've already banned one news organisation from their events.

 

[Uther]

I think our government is more or less the Taliban now anyway right?

Give them time.

 

[TheVoice]

The UK has not blocked Imgur, Imgur has blocked the UK.

Yep, seems they are staring down the barrel of a potential fine from the ICO due to not meeting basic requirements like asking a user's age when signing up for an account.

 

[Nasher]

So what could happen when this hits the end game and its on the cards that the company that owns forum software many sites use decide the same as imgur or digital ID becomes mandatory and we all have to provide it to use forums.

Off-shore the site and block UK IPs, knowing everyone has VPNs anyway. Ofcom being an official body probably isn't bouncing their connection off France or whatever, so can't even reach it

I think our government is more or less the Taliban now anyway right?

Well the BBC is basically a hammas properganda outlet at this point.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Well the BBC is basically a hammas properganda outlet at this point.

Yes it absolutely is.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

Yep, seems they are staring down the barrel of a potential fine from the ICO due to not meeting basic requirements like asking a user's age when signing up for an account.

And its worth pointing out this is a requirment of the data protection act 2018 which is a carbon copy of GDPR as required in the EU so presumably they are also inbreach of that.

Have they also blocked the EU?