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[sf105]

I'm not sure if it's the new UK age certification regulations, but imgur images are showing up as "not available in your region". I'm not sure what a solution would be except to keep reminding people to use something else or upload here.

[AtomicClock]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

The UK's data watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), said it recently notified the platform's parent company, MediaLab AI, of plans to fine Imgur after probing its approach to age checks and use of children's personal data.
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A help article on Imgur's US website, seen by the BBC, states that "from September 30, 2025, access to Imgur from the United Kingdom is no longer available".

[hyperbolica]

Government, "security", all those stupid questions about cookies, 2fa have TOTALLY ruined the internet. We could also blame it on corporate marketing and incels living in their mother's basements. But it is the same thing. Too much anarchy leads to too much government. Moderate. Self control. We can't have nice things because some shi# heads can't keep it in their pants.

Cloudflare is a scourge. Government regulation is a scourge. 98% civilized means nothing. The 98% get oppressed trying to bring the 2% under control. There has to be another way to solve this.

[harrisonreed]

The internet is not really used the way it used to be -- content is now nearly 100% hosted by entities, like Imgur, TikToc, Google, Meta, even this forum. What those sites host is no longer legally seen as public discourse in the town square, it is seen as that entity "saying" what its users posted on their behalf. Sometimes even ISPs or data centers are seen as "saying" what the users have posted. So the various content hosting sites (or ISPs) therefore censor the material that makes them look bad in the eyes of the policy makers that control the laws that allow them to advertise. Or governments straight up enact laws like the UK law.

At the end of the day, it all comes down to how to deliver the most drool-enducing milk-toast non-confrontational garbage to the masses with targeted ads slapped on it. The worst part is that these various platforms (small forums like this excluded) are controlled by a very small number of individual people, and most of them are closely tied to world leaders and policy makers. These entities can straight up censor content on their own without government influence by blaming "the algorithm" which buries controversial content so far down at the bottom of the pile that even though it's there, you won't ever be able to find it.

All of the info available funneling through a handful of entities that operate based on CEO relationships with policy makers, info which is then being censored, not fact checked, and then reinforced by being fed into LLMs (also being influenced by policies that cause them to self-censor) which then present this regurgitated "info" as immutable fact at the very top of every basic Internet search? Or ... useful information buried by the algorithm. ... sounds great