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Comment by arresin | Hacker News Reader

I really don’t get it. Just blanket block all UK ips. All sites should be doing this—large or small. I’m going to on my small blog even.

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You don't need to do this for your blog. Comments on "provider content" are out of scope. [1] This was done mainly to protect legacy press and media comments sections but it applies equally to a blog comments section.

[1] - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/55

The Internet no longer interprets censorship as damage and routes around it[0]. Instead, it is interpreted it as an opportunity to raise the barrier of entry for competitors, and embraced.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_(activist)#Activi...

I agree 100% and say that as somebody from Britain. The population needs to feel the pain of restrictions so that they will force the Labour government to rescind this law. Simply doing what this website is doing is simply going along with the problem. A blanket ban from the rest of the world will cause uproar (hopefully).

I don't think that would happen. Most of the large tech platforms will essentially just comply or come to a deal e.g. The IPA Demand for the UK gov to have a global backdoor iCloud was only rescinded when some deal was made between the current US administration and the UK gov.

The smaller companies like 4chan are going to court to have the matter settled. If that is settled in 4chan's favour, legally the UK won't be able to do anything.

That might work if it was an instantaneous global move. Unfortunately, we're far more likely to be boiled like frogs.

Agree (as a Brit). If Wikipedia blocked the UK, it would cause an absolute storm.

There's like 70m of us and most people will just use competitors as opposed to bothering with VPNs. So you're shooting yourself in the foot, financially.

Sucks for people trying to make money then, but that’s hardly a sympathetic case. Sounds like the UK are the ones truly shooting themselves in the foot. Again.

There is a huge amount of UK infra now that is dependant on US companies either directly or indirectly (AWS, Microsoft/Azure). Code, data and infra is locked into US platforms. When US-EAST-1 when down last week, it halted our whole operations at our workplace. Looking at freelancer groups I am part of (whatsapp, slack etc), they had the same experience.

The UK being blocked from the outside won't happen anyway. The large tech giants will just either cut a deal (this already happen with Apple/iCloud), or they will comply with the new acts. The sites that don't comply won't be big enough for anyone to care in normie land and thus there will be no real pressure on the UK gov.

Oh no, our websites will only be accessible by 99.15% of the world's population and 97% of its economy. Irreparable financial harm.

Given that the average adult height in the UK is slightly below 1m70, that means there's almost 42 of you!

We should fight this injustice rather than submit to it.

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