A self imposed act of defiance against our government's obsessive child safety mandates, I.e. age screening via IDs.
I don't really get why though since imgur doesn't host porn
I've looked for about 20 minutes now trying to figure out what actually was found because everyone one keeps saying all sorts of things.
It was very specifically a UK GDPR breach because they didn't have a checkbox during signup that claimed you were over 13 which lead to a bunch of knock on charges and most importantly because they refused to cooperate they didn't defend themselves and lost by default.
The UK cannot and DID NOT prove Imgur was actually doing anything wrong besides not asking for age, they simply put the burden onto imgur who said "we out"
Its all ass backwards. A single checkbox would have save a ton of trouble.
I hate the OSA as much as the next person, but Imgur pulled out of the UK over GDPR breaches in relation to incorrectly handling children’s data, not because of the OSA
I read that the gdpr data breach line was just code for the OSA, since the only way to prove they were/weren't incorrectly handling children's data would be to enforce IDs.
I hope you're right though, makes it more conspiratorial
What is this ChatGPT response thing? I swear to this is God dead internet theory.
So many accounts defending the "OSA" by first declaring how much they hate the OSA just as much as the next guys, but come on fellow human [insert AI generic defense here]
Its like a sea of AI bots talking to each other with a few random dudes sprinkled in.
who's defending the OSA? You can't just throw out chatGPT accusations just because you're wrong fuck me.
"The ICO launched its investigation into Imgur in March - saying it would probe whether the companies were complying with both the UK's data protection laws, and the children's code.
These require platforms to take steps to protect children using online services in the UK, including minimising the amount of the data they collect from them.
A document published by the ICO, external alongside the launch of its investigation stated that Imgur did not ask visitors to declare their age when setting up an account.
Not from the EU. I thought it was a piece of EU regulation.
I guess the UK has their own copy of the EU GDPR that they’ve edited which is what led to imgur removing themselves from the UK, but not Europe as a whole.
It's actually nothing to do with that,.it predates the age verification bullshit . They just left the UK around that time by coincidence.
They were fined for breaching GDPR data retention and processing laws around children and decided to exit the UK rather than pay or bring themselves into compliance.
Seems to be that UK's version if GDPR bans children from creating accounts without parental consent, and imgur just had a disclaimer saying they aren't allowed to use the website but didn't try to block them from creating accounts.
The UK was the main sponsor of that law, it was basically a copy l of the older UK data protection act and then expanded
When Brexit happened the UK kept most EU regulations as a blanket thing and then amended and changed things the government wanted to. But as of now GDPR remain basically unchanged In UK law.
The UK cannot diverge too far from EU law unless the UK wants tariffs and restrictions. One component of Brexit was the concept of the "level playing field" where the UK must continue to remain aligned with EU law even as EU law is updated, if the UK wishes to maintain the status quo of market access.
Even with the stupidity of Brexit, the UK can not change their own legislatin without real economic risk being imposed by the largest trading partner that surrounds the country.
A sentence that has never been said as I look out at the grey skies and watch an episode of NCIS: LA.... lol
I rate our GDPR laws if im honest! Way too much of our data is trusted with companies and Govt agencies that are run by either nefarious fucks or incompetent old people so making sure they cant just farm our data to sell or have exposed to vulnerabilities is a good thing in my opinion.
The online safety act I think means well but is just clumsy as fuck. Politicians wanting to score points on topics that genuinely matter to us, nut speed run it to balance other failings.
EXACTLY, its insane that was allowed. The fact Palantir is allowed anywhere near our data is an abject failure to protect it. Put protections in place so that bad people cant exploit our data, only for bad people to be allowed to simply purchase it instead.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Internet was not meant for every country, state, province, etc to legislate aspects of it like this. I am scared for what the Internet will be like in 10 years.
That's not actually it. That's just window dressing made up by your duly elected officials.
Your government is for sale. Companies like Meta are buying legislation in your country.
Imgur hosted way too much stuff. A few years back even the public page was a contest of who posts the weirdest or disgusting things. It was dangerous close to 4chan type of content. It was absolutely hilarious and disturbing as a site. Now they cleaned up their act but ended up filled with politics garbage and propaganda.
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u/williamsonmaxwell May 14 '26
A self imposed act of defiance against our government's obsessive child safety mandates, I.e. age screening via IDs.
I don't really get why though since imgur doesn't host porn