Imgur blocked in the UK

it was quite different
guess it was a joke

The difference being, in Nepal CIA/NATO funded and helped the coup, not the regime. We don't want common people protesting not one, but two genocides USA and co are helping now, eh? Which is why NATO is trying to block/control imgur, telegram, tiktok etc social media that sometimes still show the truth unlike fully controlled facebook and x. Starmer has like 5% public support now but prefers to double down on war crime support funneling thousands of tons of bombs through illegal Cyprus bases instead of listening to his voters, such democracy much wow...

Might still be better than where we are all heading to right now.

So i guess it won't be long before it also pulls out of Europe, as our own data regulation fine system is coming into practice these days.

The US has already told Starmer he's nuts if he thinks he'll get fines out of US companies. I "heard" something about they wanted to fine a Maryland, US woman for something she wrote on Facebook while physically inside the US.
However, I don't know if it's true, and cannot find a source.
Like or hate the entities in question, BBC recently ran these two articles: 1 2

Agreed, this is discomforting.

Although the situation is much worse in the US than the UK, I would argue that a state that requires users to use a VPN for perfectly legal & normal use of the Internet is headed towards totalitarianism.

It is though. For the older generation. They give up faster if there is no one to help them with tech issues

outside of totalitarian states

Bruh. Brittain is arresting more people for opinions during single week than Russia in a year xD. They already are totalitarian state xD

Imgur wasn't banned - they chose to block themselves in a weak attempt to avoid fines for mishandling information. s3nd (like most sensible websites) is already working out how to best comply with new age verification laws without pissing off users - so your comment doesn't really track.

Yeah, I remember when the only data they had about us was the IP... then also the browser agent, but that was it.
I remember when facebook launched and people started posting shit using their real names.
It seemed absolutely crazy at the time. But now it's the norm and where does it stop?
How about that teenage girl who started getting ads of infant clothes before she even knew she was pregnant?
Yeah, we're beyond salvation and it's not going to change just because some governments decide this or that.
Because all that data... was shared by us and us alone. The change has to begin from within.
And no, we can't protect the kids by enforcing laws and fines, either. Kids know VPNs, too.
I'm not saying (to the govt) don't do it, I'm saying don't think it will work like you think it will.

Man, I miss the old internet. Sharing data and information. Discovering new things. Finding your people.

You know... when people were finding each other over thousands and thousands of miles to share common interest instead of common hatred, fear-mongering and conspiracy theories.

Yup, same for me, imgur has been a nightmare with my proxies, which is one more reason why I've always preferred alternative, smaller services.

theres no such thing as safe, but there are smaller attack surfaces

Ah, yes, that does sound like a very poorly written law.

Still would like imgur not to block vpn users but I guess I can understand them pulling out if that is the case

I've heard about Minitel before, from what I understand it was one of the predecessors to the internet that somehow survived well past the point of becoming obsolete.

And about imgur, I'm pretty sure it has been officially recommended for the christmas event, that or my memory is gaslighting me.

There will be a lot of presents without pictures for UK users. There should be a warning at gift creation about this, maybe also a recommendation for an alternative.

A lot of the ones we tried were broken.

Although, it turns out that part of the issue was my friends recently reinstalled the game. It does still save the images to a players PC. So I should be able to send them the files I have. If it works then only one player will need a VPN to download new games.