Yep. That online safety bill is working hard to protect the children.

megatron-uk wrote on 2025-09-30, 08:15:

Yep. That online safety bill is working hard to protect the children.

Do I hear the sound of chickens roosting 😀 ... https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre … -investigation/

And so begins the walled garden of the UK 'internet'.

Clowns in charge. The whole lot of them.

I agree. If they impose a penalty then imgur can just ignore it.

More sites will follow.

megatron-uk wrote on 2025-09-30, 08:15:

Yep. That online safety bill is working hard to protect the children.

Any chance the parents could raise their kids and get the government out of my damn business?

Precisely my position on this. I don't use "the internet" as a substitute child minder for my kids.

Big Pink wrote on 2025-09-30, 20:12:

Any chance the parents could raise their kids and get the government out of my damn business?

Apparently not. The latest trend of parents is to just put their children infront of a smartphone / tablet / internet connected appliance and walk off with as close to zero human interaction possible.

Hmm, that explains why some pictures in threads were popping up with the content not available message.
Seems like a heavy handed response from imgur on a GDPR equivalent compliance thing rather than the OSA directly, hopefully there's a solution or method to proxy soon since so many images will be missing now for us UK users 😒

The UK is slipping further and further into an authoritarian state.
I was talking to the guys I work with the other day and they had no idea just how much the internet is censored in the UK.

The government is now also talking about age-restricting VPNs. Is that doable?

Perhaps they thought that little novel by George Orwell was a "how to" manual...

It is getting worse by the day. We truly are living in the land of "thought crime" now, where saying the wrong thing on social media or upsetting someone can see you sent to prison for longer than if you were to actually cause physical harm to someone.

I cannot believe how far we have fallen in terms of civil liberties in the last decade.

I always thought I was a fairly liberal minded person, but the last few successive governments have just proceeded to trample all over us in the name of "safety".

The latest attempt to save us from ourselves is the banning of "2 for 1" deals on unhealthy food in England.....

You can always tell whether a government is serious about "protecting" people from X, Y, or Z bad thing if they go after the leaves vs. the roots.

The leaves being the users, and the roots being the producers.

If they wanted to ban pornography, for example, they would target the pornographers themselves.

But if they just wanted an excuse to have fine grained control over what you can view or say on the internet, so they can do whatever they want without having to deal with inconvenient public outcry, they would implement a system of control ostensibly to prevent users from viewing such content.

Labour lost power in 2010 in large part because of the internet. (They could censor newspapers and TV networks but not the internet.)

Guess what's the first thing they do on getting back into power?