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What the fuck. Imgur has now blocked the UK entirely from accessing it’s website. This is awful. So many OTHER websites use Imgur as a host, so now those images will become blocked as well, rendering them unusable. This is really annoying.
What makes it more worse is that Imgur, for some reason, heavily blocks VPN access — sometimes the website works via a VPN and sometimes it doesn’t. So just having a VPN doesn’t bypass it entirely.
This is also, like way too late? The OSA became operational a few months ago, why does Imgur suddenly have a problem with it now?
Speculation: Quite a few photo website contain nudity, shock horror that nudes are actually a genre of legitimate photography. So the OSA is meant to protect kids from pornography (erotic image) which many of the nude photos don't really fall in to as nude photography focuses on the human figure, lighting, shadow etc.
So maybe they are blocking the UK so people elsewhere can still share their artistic images without falling foul of the law or requiring moderators to remove them.
I have not used imagur. On here, I have set my feed up to hide all images, in addition the tagging for naturist related images are very comprehensive it is blatently obious what the photo contains.
Meanwhile instagram et al are STILL allowing self harm and suicide posts in to feeds of under 18s, I am sure META has a much bigger budget to help deal with this than imagur.
