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> We have been forced to geo-block access from the United Kingdom to the lgbtqia.space services and community.
> This action is a direct result of the UK's Orwellian "Online Safety Act" a piece of legislation that, despite its name, is incredibly dangerous to online privacy and makes the internet absolutely not safe for marginalized communities and the volunteers who run services like this one.
This isn't new, but I saw it again this morning, and it made me sad.
@neil I still do not think I understand why.
@neil It makes me sad too 😞
@neil rarely have I been so disappointed with my country. I hope one day the people responsible for this face a human rights court. That’s the politicians that ignored human rights to win popularity from newspapers. That’s civil servants at Ofcom that “just followed orders” to enable it. It won’t happen, because there’s no fairness in this world. But it should. #OnlineSafetyAct
@neil Punishing citizens of a country for the actions of the country's lawmakers - who are able to exempt themselves from the punishment - is the traditional US way of dealing with foreign affairs.
@neil who's gone now?
@neil UK’s own Internet-Brexit.
The links that I forge online are incredibly important to me.
I don't have "online friends" and "offline friends", just "friends".
Friends come and go over time, as our paths cross and diverge. That is inevitable.
But losing friends because of legislation sucks particularly hard.
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