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Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine (www.bbc.com)
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[โ€“] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why sure but, how could they force Imgur to pay up?

[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 3 days ago

Practically they can't. In theory they could complain to the United States that a US business is attempting to circumvent UK law, but I can't imagine that having much effect at the moment.

In theory it all works because companies would be more inclined to pay the fine than to lose UK customers, in reality of course it doesn't work because everybody would just use a VPN anyway, but the people who wrote these laws don't know about VPNs because they think computers run on magic smoke.