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>>ANewbu+(OP)
Serious question: why are people siding with Imgur here, instead of blaming the company that chose to ignore the laws of the country it operates in?

Imgur's business model is ad sales and tracking users - that inherently requires collecting and protecting data, including vulnerable groups like children. Even if the UK rules are imperfect or possibly overbroad (I haven't read them), if a company choose to operate where a law applies, it's on the company to follow it or to challenge it through the courts, not to blame the regulator after the fact.

>>darkam+XF2
>> Serious question: why are people siding with Imgur here, instead of blaming the company that chose to ignore the laws of the country it operates in?

Because if we've learnt anything from the debate around the Online Safety Act, it's that the majority of people are so unbelievably addicted to porn they feel like it's a human rights violation to put up barriers to their access to it. While there are obvious privacy arguments against sharing your ID to access these sites the alternative is just not viewing porn. It's remarkable how unfathomable that idea is to entire generations of people.

>>basisw+gX2
Are you arguing that people who are against this law and its implementation in the UK are against it because they're addicted to porn?

>>sabell+e53
Yes. There are legitimate reasons to dislike the law, its implementation, or its impact on privacy. But 99% of people dislike it simply because they are heavily addicted to porn. The fact there have been much more privacy invasive laws introduced in the UK over the last decade which face little widespread outrage is the tell.

>>basisw+8d3
It's hard to keep this conversation in good faith if you're just gonna throw in some statistic you just made up.

>>sabell+ku5
It's very obviously a figure of speech and not intended as a statistic.

>>basisw+iW7
That's not the point I was trying to make. You believe that almost all people who have issue with the law do so because of porn addiction. You haven't shown any data, it's just your belief, from which you're informing and repeating your world view as fact.