Imgur blocks access to UK users after regulator warned of fine

[Gambit37]

Imgur blocks access to UK users after regulator warned of fine:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

We have a new Online Safety Act in the UK, and sites that can't be bothered to comply with it are simply going to block UK users as Imgur have done. This is very bad for UK users, as so much content is now lost to us. All those embedded images that you hosted there and link to on your forums, your social media, and your online communities? Here in the UK we can no longer see them.

Let's set aside for a moment the fact that the OSA is a steaming pile of nonsense. The fact is that companies who calculate that it's not worth the effort to comply are simply going to switch off access to UK users. In some ways that may not be a bad thing: it's perhaps an indicator that those companies might not have the best privacy protections in place already and you may want to reconsider their products/services.

We had a good thing for a long time, but we're now seeing the collpase of the open web and it's only going to get worse.