Wikipedia in UK might be blocked

[Big MOE]

"Wikipedia will not comply with any age checks required under the Online Safety Bill, its foundation says.

Rebecca MacKinnon, of the Wikimedia Foundation, which supports the website, says it would "violate our commitment to collect minimal data about readers and contributors".

A senior figure in Wikimedia UK fears the site could be blocked as a result.

But the government says only services posing the highest risk to children will need age verification."


https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65388255

[LuKenGas]

Uk has been toying with this online legislation for yars and tried to pass some form or another they finally got one done

[Nakedtruth]

Wikipedia is a great site they are nuts stopping it function over there.

[badkitty]

UK's loss

[TheButcher]

Wikipedia is taking a stand against online censorship rightly so, more power to them.

[blingman]

UK is turning into a very porn unfriend;y place to do and watch porn

[Franksdomains]

Some laws just happen to be in good faith but end up hurting sites that they never intended to hurt.

[Garry2000]

VPN use will increase

[killah]

Stupid laws - my 1 cent

[tacnet]

They would NEVER block Wikipedia. The uproar would be huge. Whatsapp have also said they will not bother complying with this

This is the 3rd time Ive seen the UK government try and police the internet over the years. Each time they get right down to the wire and then realise it simply wont work. They are already watering down this bill. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64258424

They fail to realise that they only have durastiction over sites hosted in the UK. They cant fine sites hosted in USA, Europe, Far East etc. so they are left with a choice of either blocking half the internet (and the public simply wont tolerate that) or scrapping the whole thing. And with the rise of VPNs, its all pretty meaningless anyway

Lets face it, none of us want kids looking at our content but the ONLY way to stop them is from the parental controls on their device

[Austin]

They would NEVER block Wikipedia. The uproar would be huge. Whatsapp have also said they will not bother complying with this



Lets face it, none of us want kids looking at our content but the ONLY way to stop them is from the parental controls on their device

Yes to both quotes

[pornmafia]

@tacnet Never say never, anything is possible.

[tacnet]

@tacnet Never say never, anything is possible.

Yep I hear what you are saying but I think if a democracy tries to block sites like Wikipedia and whatsapp, the uproar would be so huge that they would be voted out of power and their policies reversed

[alsporn]

@tacnet Never say never, anything is possible.

Yep I hear what you are saying but I think if a democracy tries to block sites like Wikipedia and whatsapp, the uproar would be so huge that they would be voted out of power and their policies reversed

Last I checked I was born and live in a democratic country and one state just banned Tiktok,



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[TheButcher]

@tacnet Never say never, anything is possible.

Yep I hear what you are saying but I think if a democracy tries to block sites like Wikipedia and whatsapp, the uproar would be so huge that they would be voted out of power and their policies reversed

Last I checked I was born and live in a democratic country and one state just banned Tiktok,



viewtopic.php?f=74&t=7870

Montana of all places I did not see this one coming.