Image-hosting platform Imgur has blocked people in the UK from accessing its content.
Imgur is used by millions to make and share images such as memes across the web, particularly on Reddit and in online forums.
But UK users trying to access Imgur on Tuesday were met with an error message saying “content not available in your region” - with Imgur content shared on other websites also no longer showing.
The UK’s data watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), said it recently notified the platform’s parent company, MediaLab AI, of plans to fine Imgur after probing its approach to age checks and use of children’s personal data.
Okay, here’s a wild conspiracy theory I’ve just made up.
Epstein’s photo and video blackmail material has been lost/stolen/duplicated or otherwise out “in the wild”. Before someone data dumps that on the internet they want to make sure they can quickly squash it from being accessed and put their own rules in place to be able to heavily punish and shut down those who don’t quickly comply.
I have another theory: a large portion of politicians now prefer yes-men to competent assistants. The result is that when they try to make laws that could make sense (like protecting kids from porn) they end up with the stupidest solutions ever, and do not even listen to the experts who try to warn them.
… Now?
That explains why child pornography is the excuse for chat control (I mean it’s always either that or terrorism with these things, the playbook never changes)
I also have one. AI hallucinations were expected. They just anticipated it would take longer for us to notice it because AI has been deceiving us from the beginning.
There’s at least 4 “original” versions out there:
Epstein himself had originals at his island, (confiscated at the time of the investigation). And most likely a backup at his manhattan offices (taken from the safe under suspicious circumstances by an unknown party after the “fbi” raid left the filled safe open overnight, the next day the safe was empty).
Gislaine Maxwell, as a fully involved assistant, had a (partial, non video?) copy somewhere, for safekeeping, unclear what happened to it.
Then there was a rumor Russia pressured Epstein into “selling” them a copy.
Epstein is documented to have traveled to Russia and met with government officials well before his evil empire came crashing down.
The thing is, most of these original files are used to keep the other owners in check, if any one releases them they compromise everyone on there by mutual destruction.
I suspect even if Russia, or whatever other state has them, would leak it all it would come back to burn them, if this was not the case it would have been out there publicly already.