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I just don't see why we should boycott imgur because of something the UK government did to them.
You're not being asked to, the UK govt hasn't done anything to them... they did this to themselves by failing to do anything about age verification long before the online safety act came in recently. This is about their failings over the prior years to do basic age checks that have been common on the internet for decades now... going dark in the UK doesn't affect the ongoing investigations or the fines that will be imposed... they're basically throwing their toys out of the pram and shouting LALALALALALALALA we can't hear you anymore.
Imgur had gone to dogshit anyway, it's no real loss and the new owners keep making it worse and after the last round of protests from users, went on a mass banning and censorship campaign to further alienate and anger the users they desperately need to shove an ever increasing amount of ads too.
Blame the right people... the greedy, ignorant techbros who want to extract every ounce of ad revenue they can to line their own pockets at the expense of killing the product they bought.
Good. They shouldn't. Online age verification is an authoritarian scam.
What they are being fined for (potentially) is not asking for users' age during account creation. Not whatever you think (in spite of op being clear)
Good for them.
Why is that good?
They don't have to deal with the taste of British dick in their mouth.
You don't seem worth talking to.
Yet, you felt the need to. How come?
You've failed to understand the problem entirely... the entire internet asks users to confirm they are above a certain age when creating accounts... and that happened because the USA demanded it. There's nothing authoritarian about it... it's a simple 'Are you over 13yrs of age' and you tick yes... that was it.
Funny how it doesn't seem to be a problem in any other country.
I'm not calling us to not use it as a boycott measure. It's more of a practical consideration for other users like myself who won't get to see your posts at all.
There are alternative approaches that don't cause these problems so I'd like people to use them.