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Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users

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234 points gloxkiqcza | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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amiga386 ◴[15 Jul 25 15:09 UTC] No.44571961[source]▶
PSA: UK users can visit all their favourite websites in Tor Browser. Just don't run your torrent client using the tor network. Thank you.

You can also access 4chan, Tattle Life, and other nasty gossip websites that the UK nanny state wants to ban.

And you can access the porn on Reddit and Twitter (though in some cases you'll have to make an account). And of course the "tube" sites work fine.

After you've done that, as a UK citizen, please go to https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903 and ask the government to repeal their awful law.

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dtf ◴[15 Jul 25 15:44 UTC] No.44572351[source]▶
You'll need more than just an account to access "certain mature content" on sites like Reddit - you'll soon need to upload some photographic ID.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4ep1znk4zo

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zerotolerance ◴[15 Jul 25 16:19 UTC] No.44572779[source]▶
It is trivial to create a digital picture of a false ID.
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1. alwa ◴[15 Jul 25 16:32 UTC] No.44572938[source]▶
Well. Certainly for people in the room here. One imagines regulators know that too, and will draw the line accordingly… that they may grudgingly tolerate validation systems that allow some degree of individual fraud, but stomp on the first of us here to vibe-code our way to a fraud-as-a-service site that gets any traction.

I’m reminded of all-around-good-guy @patio11’s evergreen The Optimal Amount Of Fraud Is Non-Zero…

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...