The USA sees the UK's Online Safety Act 2023, and its purported extra-territorial effect, as a threat to freedom of expression as enshrined in the US constitution.
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The USA sees the UK's Online Safety Act 2023, and its purported extra-territorial effect, as a threat to freedom of expression as enshrined in the US constitution.
Who'd have thought?!
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@neil Wait, what? The OSA affects sites outside of the UK? I'm tempted to just geoblock UK visitors, then. I can't be arsed to find out what I'd need to do.
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So if UK users aren't of use to you or your services then why are you serving them at the moment?
Was that easier for you than not doing so? Which other countries users are also of no use to you?
GeoBlock those countries also?
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So if UK users aren't of use to you or your services then why are you serving them at the moment?
A default of "I'm happy to make stuff available to anyone, anywhere in the world, until their country makes that too risky" seems both common and sensible to me, in the context of a World Wide Web?
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@neil @simonzerafa Yes, exactly what Neil said. I don't specifically serve or target UK users, but I have had no problems with my stuff being visible there.
If the UK government makes that risky for me, unless I jump through arbitrary hoops, I'll just block the country.
(Edit: fix name spelling, oops.)
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@liw @neil @simonzerafa How risky can the UK government make it for a non resident foreign national, though?
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@shtrom @simonzerafa @neil what about non resident foreign nationals who have friends in the UK and sometimes travel to the UK to visit them?
or simply who live relatively close to the UK, and sometimes visit it for their holidays.
(I'm talking generics and not the specific of @liw situation)
