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> Unavailable Due to the UK Online Safety Act

NSFW blog content on HN? Really?

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He has an article for that

https://aphyr.com/posts/379-geoblocking-the-uk-with-debian-n...

> This is, to be clear, a bad solution. MaxMind’s free database is not particularly precise, and in general IP lookup tables are chasing a moving target. I know for a fact that there are people in non-UK countries (like Ireland!) who have been inadvertently blocked by these lookup tables. Making those people use Tor or a VPN sucks, but I don’t know what else to do in the current regulatory environment.

Woah you can't see this in the UK? Without age verification?

Update: there's a section called "Pornography". It does not contain pornography.

It's not blocked By the UK, he's put a country filter on it Like all the US sites that decided to block.the EU over gdpr because turning off tracking was too much effort

Work fine in Spain, so lets not jump on the all to typical EU-made-the-internet-suck bandwagon all too quickly. Seems this is a UK problem. But what do I know, I actually read the error message.

It's the author's problem with the UK (and the UK's Online Safety Act, which establishes requirements on hosts that can't be avoided by merely not being in the UK), rather than the UK's problem with the author.

But as much as I dislike the OSA: if you're not subject to UK law, why do you (website author) care what our government thinks of your website? It's not like they can do anything to you.

Visitors are subject to UK law.

https://archive.is/c3ggq

perhaps the safety filter is wrong instead of the post?

Most likely it's a protest. Badplace passed Badlaw, so residents of Badplace can't see my content, so nyah!

But, topics of a sexual nature—nothing really NSFW, just mentions of various fetishes that online people have developed and popularized, and the possibilities for AI to realize those fetishes and potentially spawn new ones—are discussed in the blog post, so it may be illegal to present to minors under the OSA.

This is not a safety filter. The owner/author is explicitly geolocation IP blocking UK users:

https://aphyr.com/posts/379-geoblocking-the-uk-with-debian-n...

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