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git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days ago

Wikipedia loses Online Safety Act legal challenge

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Wikipedia loses Online Safety Act legal challenge

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git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days ago
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Wikipedia has lost a High Court challenge against the UK Government over verification requirements in the Online Safety Act.
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  • save_vs_death [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    if you’re operating a website, at this point you might as well just block UK IPs and be done with it

    • ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Normalize calling this the Great Firewall of England to make it clear that England is the one asking to sink England

      • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Hadrian’s Firewall.

        • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          GOOD post

    • Soot [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      As a UKian, yeah, I agree. The small market can’t possible be worth the technical effort and legal liability anyway. More importantly it severely blunts any incentive to actually bow to the UK government’s insane whims.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Me: “I like browsing Wikipedia for fun.”

    anglo-burn: “You PERVERT! That’s so inappropriate! Think of the poor children!”

    frothingfash: “Hi, I’m basic and have no personality! That means all games should have big anime booba and if you hate broslop you hate Jesus!”

    anglo-burn: “Preach, god-fearing patriot!”

  • dastanktal [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    This law just keeps getting dumber and dumber

  • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    If I was Jimmy Wales I would simply block wikipedia in the UK. Make the state squirm a little

  • blunder [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    oi, yew got a loicense for that wikipedia article?

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