Imgur blocks access to UK users after [Ofcom] proposed regulatory fine | BBC News
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115312
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #imgur #ofcom #surveillance
@neil you may have had a bunch of messages saying this already... but it looks like #imgur geoblocked the UK today, presumably over #OnlineSafetyAct I've mainly seen it used for image sharing in other fora like reddit and dreamwidth. Checking from "outside the uk" confirms it's the UK not Europe being blocked. Largest site I've seen take action like this.
Cory Doctorow
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Day four of the Imgur user rebellion. More media have noticed https://imgur.com/gallery/todays-episode-of-wtaf-is-going-on-404-media-has-summarized-fiasco-4tv2TXa
Users are flooding the front page with "The gif" as it is known on Imgur. A pornographic Marvell gif which has previously been a guarantee of an instant ban and instant removal of the post. Many copies of the gif have been showing on the front page all day without being removed.
Sorry these posts are out of order. I was unable to post for a couple of days and am filling in the blanks.
Day four of the Imgur user rebellion. More media have noticed https://imgur.com/gallery/todays-episode-of-wtaf-is-going-on-404-media-has-summarized-fiasco-4tv2TXa
Users are flooding the front page with "The gif" as it is known on Imgur. A pornographic Marvell gif which has previously been a guarantee of an instant ban and instant removal of the post. Many copies of the gif have been showing on the front page all day without being removed.
Sorry these posts are out of order. I was unable to post for a couple of days and am filling in the blanks.
Day three of the Imgur user rebellion. The site owners post about the rebellion. It is a wall of text that is not well received by the users. In it the company claims both that no one was fired but that there are "less of us here" to handle the workload. The company also claims to not be doing any of the things the users have documented that they are clearly doing. They claim no one was fired while statements by ex employees saying they were fired have been posted by users.
It is as if the company doesn't read its own site and doesn't think the users communicate with each other.
https://imgur.com/gallery/hey-s-business-daddy-got-sec-ctQTDDt Full text of the company's reply.
@pluralistic Are you aware of this user rebellion?
Day two of the Imgur user rebellion. The media has noticed.
Day five of the Imgur user rebellion. Yesterday it was hard core porn flooding the front page. Today it is black panels.
The once great, but now a shadow of it's former self, image sharing site Imgur is having a bit of a moment. The site was recently sold to MediaLabs who have plastered the site in ads, replaced moderation with AI and fired most of the staff. This has resulted in some parts of the site failing to function e.g. the entire notifications system.
Media Labs performance has been so bad it has pushed the numerically small but devoted remaining users to realise their power. The users of Imgur have united in rebellion to protest and have covered the entire front page in images disparaging the company. The site is entirely dependent on the users posting things to generate its income. The site owners literally add nothing except ads.
This is an exemplar to the rest of our society, struggling as we are under the weight of parasites who only detract from our efforts for their own gain.
The front page of Imgur showing almost every single post being the John Oliver anti MediaLabs meme. Those which are not that meme are other posts criticising MediaLabs.
A screenshot of John Oliver's rant against MediaLabs turned into an anti MediaLabs meme with the text "Fuck you, business daddy" overlaid on it. The title of the post is "Business daddy, kindly go fuck yourself".
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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My Firefox addon got approved! It ensures i.imgur.com, preview.redd.it, i.reddit.com and media.tumblr.com actually send you an image when visiting links instead of redirecting to a page with a bunch of proprietary javascript!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fucking-jpeg/
#firefox #addons #firefoxaddons #reddit #imgur #tumblr
My Firefox addon got approved! It ensures i.imgur.com, preview.redd.it, i.reddit.com and media.tumblr.com actually send you an image when visiting links instead of redirecting to a page with a bunch of proprietary javascript!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fucking-jpeg/
#firefox #addons #firefoxaddons #reddit #imgur #tumblr