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>>ANewbu+(OP)
How do you "pull out" of the UK if you are not a UK company, you are a US company, hosted in the US, and proxied by Fastly. There's nothing to do? You do not need to abide by UK laws, even if your website is accessible from there.

>>sammy2+xd
The UK government does not care. The law applies no matter where you are hosted, where you are incorporated or who is proxiying you.

>You do not need to abide by UK laws, even if your website is accessible from there.

The UK government does not agree.

>>consta+xe
But its still not the UK government's decision. They don't have sovereignty over other nations, as much as they'd like to think they do.

All they can legally do is bitch and moan and order UK ISPs to block. There's no action they can legally take against Imgur.

>>theweb+zf
The US does exert its laws extraterritorially when there is a sufficient nexus to US interests too. Why wouldn't the UK be allowed to do so?

>>weinzi+uh
The UK? How many divisions do they have?

Why shouldn’t Russia be allowed to exert their laws extraterritorially? Or Mali? Or Sudan? Or the Iranians? Or China? Or Israel?

What you’re asking for is the end of the internet, full stop.

>>iamnot+ou
They are! Russia has been fining Google increasingly insane amounts for blocking state media [1]. It's the company's prerogative of whether they want to have a legal entity falling under the country's jurisdiction and whether employees want to travel there and risk being held criminally liable.

It's likely simpler to just block access to the country's IP ranges (or ignore!) and move on.

[1]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxvnwkl5kgo

>>phi0+qF
> It's the company's prerogative of whether they want to have a legal entity falling under the country's jurisdiction

Except in this case, Imgur does not have a legal entity falling under the UK's jurisdiction. They are purely a US based company. It's not like Google, Apple, etc. that have offices in the UK.

This particular fine is the UK trying to extend its jurisdiction to entities that it has no sovereign authority over.

Just because some UK user might visit my website doesn't mean I now have to follow all UK laws if I don't actually do business there, and don't intend to.

Blocking the traffic is how we end up with the balkanization of the internet.