All kinds of governments are rushing to implement something similar. The Fediverse solves some problems, but not the problem of a site being hosted in a single geographical location (and thus a single government’s jurisdiction). To help with this there are tools like i2p that can obscure a site’s hosting location, and there’s also work on distributed web hosting, but the latter still seems to be in its early stages. One day maybe we’ll have distributed websites that can be resilient against censorship.
Whaddaya mean? A non-UK instance doesn’t have to comply with UK law if it doesn’t operate as an entity in the UK and so it won’t require the face ID for UK visitors. So long as the instance is okay with hosting this content, it would let UK visitors view it. For example, I don’t think the UK has authority or mechanism to ask a Brazil-based instance to do this.
Sounds like it’s time for those subreddits to find new homes on non-UK instances of Lemmy.
All kinds of governments are rushing to implement something similar. The Fediverse solves some problems, but not the problem of a site being hosted in a single geographical location (and thus a single government’s jurisdiction). To help with this there are tools like i2p that can obscure a site’s hosting location, and there’s also work on distributed web hosting, but the latter still seems to be in its early stages. One day maybe we’ll have distributed websites that can be resilient against censorship.
That wouldn’t solve anything
Whaddaya mean? A non-UK instance doesn’t have to comply with UK law if it doesn’t operate as an entity in the UK and so it won’t require the face ID for UK visitors. So long as the instance is okay with hosting this content, it would let UK visitors view it. For example, I don’t think the UK has authority or mechanism to ask a Brazil-based instance to do this.
Then it just gets blocked in the uk and you’re back to having to use a vpn.