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Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Frenchfryenjoyer@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 74 points 1 year ago

UK is implementing law for age verification on nsfw content, that's the jist of it.

Some services are choosing to simply not serve the UK rather than deal with the faff and/or the privacy concerns. lemmy.zip where I am from is one of them.

Blame lies squarely with the UK gov & Online Safety Act. It's a shit law made to pander to the 'think of the children' types that are incapable of parenting, also coming with the bonus of grift and doxxing concerns by companies that move in to provide the service.

I don't blame any site operator that chooses to simply not play. VPN goes on, normal service resumes.

[-] juliorapido@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 year ago

“It's a shit law made to pander to the *'think of the children'* types that are incapable of parenting”

This.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

Whenever someone says that there law is to protect:

the children
old people
the vulnerable
..

You know that it's full of hidden shit.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

UK has always been a nanny state. Surprised it took them so long.

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 5 points 1 year ago

I lived there for 10 years from 2000, it seemed to come uo every year or two whil I was there - fuck them

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

It's also several hundred pages long. Fair few web forums are closing because of it if they are UK hosted too.

It would be interesting to get a legal opinion on what about it actually impacts lemmy instances tbh. Obviously one option is to go "lol fuck off" if the UK complain and you are not in the UK.

[-] Jerry@feddit.online 4 points 1 year ago

They can notify the hosting company that the server is violating UK law, the registrars, and payment services. This is the fear for sites not hosted in the UK. There are inter-country agreements to support civil actions.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doesn't that sort of thing take quite a bit of time though? And they need to find out about it too.

That said I don't know if the free and open internet has much time left.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If the surface web gets bad enough, there is still the dark web.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe it's too tinfoil hat but I worry they will push for a whitelisted internet at some point.

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I highly doubt the US government would look fondly on a US-based service taking down a US-based social media site because Ofcom complained to them about them not adhering to local laws. Especially under this administration. It would be seen as foreign interference. And for that reason, I very much doubt Ofcom would ever do that. They'd just block the site violating OSA.