It all boils down if UK or Australia are financially viable to comply. Imgur probably considered UK too small to bother.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
megatron-uk wrote on 2025-10-03, 07:01:I completely agree - it's not just one party; it's all of them, and the hangers-on behind the scenes who are unelected and subje […]
I completely agree - it's not just one party; it's all of them, and the hangers-on behind the scenes who are unelected and subject to no public scrutiny.
They are all as bad as each other in this regard.
We are sleepwalking towards a mass surveillance society where the government will be able to access and control every aspect of your life.
... and it is being facilitated by the uninformed masses who respond with "so what? I've got nothing to hide".
Its been that way for as long as I can remember, what has changed is the internets social sites have made it so a larger number of people can communicate their thoughts on the subject so we know more and more people see it, so you start to realise it isnt just in your mind.
Bad as each other....
Yeah I mean ....
In the UK we have rail franchises. And if you look into the way that whole thing is run... In brief the government offers a franchise up, companies bid, lowest bidder wins, the government has already decided what trains the companies will use, where they will use then on what services, they have already decided what services will run and the timetable they will use, the only thing the rail companies do is hire/fire staff to operate the services and pay wages from the income they get from the services which is already known... If the rail company doesnt make as much as the government said they would when they won the franchise they will give them the money anyway! (look into what happened during 2019-2021 era to see this actually happen).
The rail companies are just a front, they decide nothing at all, they are only there to take the blame when there is any public outcry. Which is what happened to Northern.
The government is exactly the same. We just dont know exactly who is pulling the strings behind the curtain.
You only have to look at Liz Truss to see it cant be the PM in charge.
She was elected leader of the party on an idea she would roll out changes to the economy
She won and rolled out the changes
She was basically removed within a month because the powers behind the scenes didnt like her ideas, but they couldnt stop her from being elected the leader of the party.
The Serpent Rider wrote on 2025-10-03, 11:41:It all boils down if UK or Australia are financially viable to comply. Imgur probably considered UK too small to bother.
Companies like Imgur run on a shoe string budget. introducing and rolling out the tech required to have age verification on their site is to expensive for them. So they have to stop access.
megatron-uk wrote on 2025-10-03, 07:01:I completely agree - it's not just one party; it's all of them, and the hangers-on behind the scenes who are unelected and subje […]
I completely agree - it's not just one party; it's all of them, and the hangers-on behind the scenes who are unelected and subject to no public scrutiny.
They are all as bad as each other in this regard.
We are sleepwalking towards a mass surveillance society where the government will be able to access and control every aspect of your life.
... and it is being facilitated by the uninformed masses who respond with "so what? I've got nothing to hide".
Is their any difference between the major parties these days?
Both in the UK and Oz, I feel the main 2 will make whatever promises are popular and get them elected, but rarely does anything become of them, especially if it risks votes or money. (which most policy changes do)
The whole world seems to be blindly giving up on freedoms letting the government slowly taking rights away bit by bit.
Much more serious matter though is Imgur 😉 I've already got a lot of broken links when they moved from the imgur.cc domain, Now I'm going to have more depending on which country.
Always felt bad about uploading here, taking up vogons space, but might start doing it just to futureproof
What's freedom? Be born, get half of your dick cut off (if you're male), go to school where you don't learn anything important, spend decades at the job you don't care about, die.
Bonus, I hear some countries have this awful thing called "conscription".
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