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[AJUMP23]

Police telling people to stop flying their countries flag because it might offend foreigners. Website controls, soft on crime judges. Grooming gang corruption. UK all round needs a major shift.

 

[YCoCg]

https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgur-access-in-the-United-Kingdom

 

[Burning Blade]

2nd protects the 1st.

 

[Trilobit]

The most precious reaction became even more precious.
It should be made permanent change only available to UK citizen, as a reward for managing to live in such a dump.

I'm suspecting EviLore is scheming with Imgur to get Gaf users to splurge for a gold membership.

 

[Fbh]

Quickly, lets post insanely hardcore right wing hate speech while UK GAF can't see it
I'll start:

 

[chromhound]

Imgur suck since they removed the nudes

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

The Cobra Effect all over again.

 

[Raven117]

Dude, what the fuck is the UK doing? (Much broader than just this)

 

[AJUMP23]

Dude, what the fuck is the UK doing? (Much broader than just this)

I think that is how the western world feels. Quit suicideing your country and culture.

 

[Raven117]

I think that is how the western world feels. Quit suicideing your country and culture.

For sure, but the UK is speed running it

 

[bobbobuk]

Shit show. VPN on constantly I guess

 

[jufonuk]

You came back to life and got your job back,so I'm guessing pretty well for you.

 

[Phobos Base]

Another step closer to China, the end game is a fully regulated internet that you need your digital I.D to access.

 

[near]

Dude, what the fuck is the UK doing? (Much broader than just this)

Trying to erase online anonymity is my guess. Introducing the digital IDs with the suggested limited scope will be the first step before enforcing UK citizens to use them with online platforms.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Police telling people to stop flying their countries flag because it might offend foreigners. Website controls, soft on crime judges. Grooming gang corruption. UK all round needs a major shift.

It's funny how a lot of western countries bend backwards trying to make everyone happy. But if you go to a lot of other countries, it's up to the foreigner to man up and blend in with others. Not locals blending in with foreigners.

That PR game of trying to look like the nicest guy in the world is something that is a very western country kind of thing.

 

[Beretta]

That's fucking insane….what is going on in the UK….

 

[MudoSkills]

Not that our government aren't fucking arseholes, but just to be clear, this is Imgur withdrawing from the UK rather than Keir Starmer sitting down with a big red pen and writing Imgur down on his board of naughty thought havers.

We had similar when GDPR came in and a lot of websites outside of the EU just decided to withdraw service rather than take a look at the regs and make adjustments.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Not that our government aren't fucking arseholes, but just to be clear, this is Imgur withdrawing from the UK rather than Keir Starmer sitting down with a big red pen and writing Imgur down on his board of naughty thought havers.

We had similar when GDPR came in and a lot of websites outside of the EU just decided to withdraw service rather than take a look at the regs and make adjustments.

In the end, it's the same damned thing. "Alter your business or don't do business at all."

 

[Brigandier]

 

[Xeela_sunston]

Imgur throwing a hissy fit over setting up age verification is just delaying the inevitable.

The same type of controls are going to be adopted EU wide shortly and if imgur feel they can ignore a UK market of 70 million, let's see if they feel the same about ignoring a loss of another 300+ million eyeballs.

What worse that 70+ million photos from UK accounts that can't be taken down. They cry about the OSA being a security risk yet they Imgur has no Issue doing the same with Personal data from UK accounts, Yet everyone just treating It some joke.

 

[Lambogenie]

Other than pornhub having random country spikes thanks to VPN, is there any data that suggests that online ID stuff is even working?

 

[StueyDuck]

Police telling people to stop flying their countries flag because it might offend foreigners. Website controls, soft on crime judges. Grooming gang corruption. UK all round needs a major shift.

Curious where all these so-called and self-proclaimed anti fascists are...

 

[AJUMP23]

Curious where all these so-called and self-proclaimed anti fascists are...

They are for government control surprisingly.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

"First they came for the illegal content, and I said nothing—because I don't post illegal content.
Then they came for the hate speech, and I said nothing—because I'm not hateful.
Then they came for the offensive memes, and I said nothing—because I only make harmless jokes.
Then they came for Imgur, and I said nothing—because I only look at pictures.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to share memes."

 

[Trilobit]

It's funny how a lot of western countries bend backwards trying to make everyone happy. But if you go to a lot of other countries, it's up to the foreigner to man up and blend in with others. Not locals blending in with foreigners.

That PR game of trying to look like the nicest guy in the world is something that is a very western country kind of thing.

Then there is also the Swedish way. For background you must understand that for many years Swedes considered Sweden to be the best country on all Earth. No, I'm serious, they did. They would often use the mantra "in Sweden we do it this way" when abroad to show how far above they were other countries.

When Sweden then started taking in insane amounts of migrants and refugees they started calling themselves a "humanitarian superpower". No, I'm serious, they did. So having this outlook on themselves there was basically zero assimilation policies in effect during the enormous migration wave. The mindset basically boiled down to "they will understand our superior ways and automatically assimilate themselves. Their cultures, families and clans won't mean much once they get a taste of the Swedish mindset and institutions."

If one wants to see examples of the Swedish xenophobia then reading about the Sami people is pretty enlightening. UN and Council of Europe have even in modern times criticized them for their treatment. I don't really understand how Sweden as a country felt that they were prepared to abandon their monoculture and become a melting pot. There will probably be decades of problems before they can successfully assimilate other people. I live in Sweden and I'm grateful for a million things here, but it's important to see things soberly and realistically.

 

[Unknown?]

They are for government control surprisingly.

Been doing this for ages! They manipulate language and when something actually happens that is authoritarian, they hide and secretly utilize it to force their beliefs on others.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

What worse that 70+ million photos from UK accounts that can't be taken down. They cry about the OSA being a security risk yet they Imgur has no Issue doing the same with Personal data from UK accounts, Yet everyone just treating It some joke.

Nope, they have that covered:

Article:

You can exercise your data protection rights without logging in (for example, to request a copy of your data or deletion) using our Help Center request form.

We may request information to verify your identity and will respond within the time limits set by UK data protection law. We may continue to process limited personal data where necessary and lawful, for example, to comply with legal obligations and to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. Information about how long we keep data and how we process it is available in our Privacy Policy.

Source: https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgur-access-in-the-United-Kingdom

Imgur isn't the one at fault here.

 

[Dr.D00p]

Imgur isn't the one at fault here.

Fuck off with that bullshit.

If they were going to do this they could have at least had the decency to inform UK users ahead of time, giving people a chance to delete their uploads from their site and go elsewhere.

This is all about another company from that now fascist level Trump shithole country, America, treating others with utter contempt and thinking they're above everyone else's laws, put in place by a democratically elected Western Government.

 

[Avid Reading Horse]

Fuck off with that bullshit.

If they were going to do this they could have at least had the decency to inform UK users ahead of time, giving people a chance to delete their uploads from their site and go elsewhere.

This is all about another company from that now fascist level Trump shithole country, America, treating others with utter contempt and thinking they're above everyone else's laws, put in place by a democratically elected Western Government.

 

[Three]

In the end, it's the same damned thing. "Alter your business or don't do business at all."

Nah, not the same at all. They could do business fine. The alteration would have just been to have 18+ content separated. There is no reason a treasure chest emoji should not be available in a region. That and the fact that Imgur seem to throw errors when using a proxy/VPN tells me Imgur are just kind of shit at getting anything done properly or stirring up shit.

 

[Putonahappyface]

Fuck off with that bullshit.

If they were going to do this they could have at least had the decency to inform UK users ahead of time, giving people a chance to delete their uploads from their site and go elsewhere.

This is all about another company from that now fascist level Trump shithole country, America, treating others with utter contempt and thinking they're above everyone else's laws, put in place by a democratically elected Western Government.

You know you can access your account with a VPN right?