Imgur has blocked the UK

Pho · 20 Oct 2025 at 10:59

Trifid said:
Is a middle aged adult still wanting to access Imgur so albums in /r/diy still work considered naughty? Also a lot of posts on reddit are marked as nsfw even if they are not pornographic. This is what annoys. I do spend a lot less time on the internet so maybe it is for the best.

No not at all. It's a real pain given just how much people rely on Imgur all over the place.

If what you're trying to do would get you put in prison if you got caught, use Tails or Tor. For trying to load DIY images, really not needed

Oz!asM!dwinter · 20 Oct 2025 at 11:32

throwaway4372 said:
Step 1. Invest in VPN companies
Step 2. Make law that pushes people to buy vpns
Step 3. Profit

Labour MP stands up in parliament and announces 'the majority of the UK want to ban VPNs'

the 'majority' - a survey of 4000 over 65's, and I bet the questions were designed to elicit a particular response: 'VPNs are used to access violent or obscene content on the internet. Should they be banned?'

UberTiger · 21 Oct 2025 at 21:17

Imageshack doesn't seem to strip exif data btw, which imgur does. So it will reveal the location of where you took your pics.

unwashed potato! · 22 Oct 2025 at 15:59

i don't mind the idea of this new law, but only if it was aimed at sites that are primarily in the porn category. a site having the ability to have a nude photo within it's millions of other non porny photos, should not have this rule apply to them.

Nasher · 22 Oct 2025 at 18:07

Oz!asM!dwinter said:
Labour MP stands up in parliament and announces 'the majority of the UK want to ban VPNs'

the 'majority' - a survey of 4000 over 65's, and I bet the questions were designed to elicit a particular response: 'VPNs are used to access violent or obscene content on the internet. Should they be banned?'

This lab government are a bunch of *****

VPN use is up by 1000s of percent. That sounds more like the majority of the UK want the OSA gone.

SimonRigga · 22 Oct 2025 at 21:48

I suspect if you look into recent shareholders of major vpn companies, it will be MP's and their close friends

Dunks · 22 Oct 2025 at 21:48

biron_w said:
It's Manjaro using KDE Plasma. The distro doesn't matter really as you can use KDE on most distro's.

Looks nice, always remember KDE being one of the more ugly DE's!

biron_w · 22 Oct 2025 at 21:51

Dunks said:
Looks nice, always remember KDE being one of the more ugly DE's!

The newest KDE is pretty decent looking and had some great themes.

SimonRigga · 22 Oct 2025 at 21:52

Can't seem to edit my post... so ...

to be fair, i'm not sure the bill was first set out by the labour government...

it would be like you walking into a toilet with a big dump in it.. that won't flush.. and you just know the next person outside waiting is going to blame you..

cheesyboy · 22 Oct 2025 at 22:13

SimonRigga said:
to be fair, i'm not sure the bill was first set out by the labour government...

When the bill was going through parliament, Labour, in opposition, were arguing to beef it up further, rather than throw it out

fish_dan · 23 Oct 2025 at 00:09

I wish more sites would just block access to the UK like Imgur. Was hoping Wikipedia would do it too but I think they need the donations too much yo keep operating.

BUDFORCE · 23 Oct 2025 at 07:51

Oz!asM!dwinter said:
Labour MP stands up in parliament and announces 'the majority of the UK want to ban VPNs'

the 'majority' - a survey of 4000 over 65's, and I bet the questions were designed to elicit a particular response: 'VPNs are used to access violent or obscene content on the internet. Should they be banned?'

Id love to know how they could ever enforce it anyway.

Haggisman · 23 Oct 2025 at 10:10

BUDFORCE said:
Id love to know how they could ever enforce it anyway.

Well, they could in theory force ISPs to block them, but:

A) that would cause a whole host of massive issues for many companies
and
B) It would be relatively trivial to create a VPN able to bypass the block

With the above taken into consideration, it's almost certainly something our utterly inept leaders will try. ****ing morons. :rolleyes:

BUDFORCE · 23 Oct 2025 at 10:59

Haggisman said:
Well, they could in theory force ISPs to block them, but:

A) that would cause a whole host of massive issues for many companies
and
B) It would be relatively trivial to create a VPN able to bypass the block

With the above taken into consideration, it's almost certainly something our utterly inept leaders will try. ****ing morons.

You know what it'll cause, increase in sex offences.

As those people who can't control themselves will need to get their fix elsewhere.

rojones · 23 Oct 2025 at 17:08

Went on a US based sports forum that i dont often use, and due to imgur being used all over the shop was madness. Had to scroll for an age between each post :cry:

InkZ · 23 Oct 2025 at 17:30

I didn't realise this was a thing, omg. Stupid law. It just doesn't work in practice.

unwashed potato! · 24 Oct 2025 at 22:06

InkZ said:
I didn't realise this was a thing, omg. Stupid law. It just doesn't work in practice.

Simply because sites that aren't primarily porn sites are included. It's foolish to have the rule that if OCUK hosts images that we can upload to, they have to have this age verification.

Fair enough if OCUK forums has an "adult" section then that section should be age checked, but site wide? Thars crazy.

Hagar · 24 Oct 2025 at 23:51

unwashed potato! said:
Simply because sites that aren't primarily porn sites are included. It's foolish to have the rule that if OCUK hosts images that we can upload to, they have to have this age verification.

Fair enough if OCUK forums has an "adult" section then that section should be age checked, but site wide? Thars crazy.

The fact is that because OCUK does not have an adult section, all of the site has to be family friendly. OCUK does not wish to use age verification rightly so.

It is Imjurs servers that have to proclaim that they are also family friendly or to have age verification which has caused them to not operate within our borders.

There are many plusses to the legislation and if it causes a few companies to not trade in the UK, there are plenty of others willing to. It is no great issue.

unwashed potato! · 25 Oct 2025 at 07:44

Hagar said:
The fact is that because OCUK does not have an adult section, all of the site has to be family friendly. OCUK does not wish to use age verification rightly so.

It is Imjurs servers that have to proclaim that they are also family friendly or to have age verification which has caused them to not operate within our borders.

There are many plusses to the legislation and if it causes a few companies to not trade in the UK, there are plenty of others willing to. It is no great issue.

Yeah but thars what's wrong. This rule should apply to porn sites,or sections of a site that are dedicated to that content. The idea of protecting kids from porn sites is fine, but protecting kids from ever potentially seeing a barely dressed girl on a forum is where it gets ridiculous

Azza · 25 Oct 2025 at 08:09

Hagar said:
The fact is that because OCUK does not have an adult section, all of the site has to be family friendly. OCUK does not wish to use age verification rightly so.

It is Imjurs servers that have to proclaim that they are also family friendly or to have age verification which has caused them to not operate within our borders.

There are many plusses to the legislation and if it causes a few companies to not trade in the UK, there are plenty of others willing to. It is no great issue.

Awww, keep going you'll get access some day.

Imgur has blocked the UK

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