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Why though? They aren't based in the UK why do they have to block it? Isn't it on the UK to do the blocking?
Those attempting to access the site from the UK today were met with an 'Access Restricted' message. A helpful "Gooner TLDR" at the top explains that the site is "blocked in the UK to comply with regulations," and that "Ur gov is dumb, we're looking into solutions." The longer explanation reads that "the financial cost of implementing age verification per user is prohibitively high, rendering it impossible for us to sustain operations under these mandates."
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But R34 isn't based in UK why do they have to block it themselves??
Because by offering the website in the UK they are doing business in the UK legally speaking. So they have to follow UK regulations or face the fine of up to the greater of 18 million or 10% of global revenue. If they operated in a country that wouldn't make them pay up for UK fine and had advertisers based in the a similar country then they could ignore it but that leaves only a handful of countries and basically no advertisers.
No it isn't on the UK to block the company. It's on the company to comply with the law by either implementing age verification or blocking access.
Bullshit you don't have to comply with laws from other countries unless you're actively doing business in that country, a resident there, or have your servers hosted there.
They're not 'offering it's to the UK', they're offering it to the internet.
But I guess I'm not a lawyer.
By serving the content to an IP address from that country you are "actively doing business in that country"
Yeah I dont believe that. Do you have anything saying that's how it works? And by who's definition is this? Some kind of electronic trade agreement?
It's similar to gdpr: https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/
But rule34 isn't a company