Don’t know why I expected something interesting from the Brits but I looked at lemmy.zip posts and was a bit disappointed. Is there a list of the websites blocked in the UK maybe with rates and comments what you definitely should not visit and such?
Because… the OSA is badly worded, pretty damn oppressive and the penalties are so high that if they enforced them then well, pretty much ANY decent website will cease to be available in the UK. Simple really, plus it doesn’t do anything like it should do as users just magically appear to be in a different country…
Do you know why?
UK OSA Act ie the porn act
Don’t know why I expected something interesting from the Brits but I looked at lemmy.zip posts and was a bit disappointed. Is there a list of the websites blocked in the UK maybe with rates and comments what you definitely should not visit and such?
And as if by magic…
https://www.blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks
Thanks. Still no porn though, mostly tech related websites. Why are they banned by osa?
Because… the OSA is badly worded, pretty damn oppressive and the penalties are so high that if they enforced them then well, pretty much ANY decent website will cease to be available in the UK. Simple really, plus it doesn’t do anything like it should do as users just magically appear to be in a different country…
What you describe sounds either like incompetence, or like perfect censorship tool as intended. Wonder what it is.
So ban to vpn is next?
Nope - banning vpn’s would be simple stoopid (!). Especially as most businesses rely on them for online security as does the government…
I don’t think anything like that exists, way too easy to bypass them right now