The image-hosting platform - which is widely used to make memes - was facing a fine over its use of children's data.

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.

  • ShadowRam@fedia.io
    3·
    3 days ago

    My conspiracy theory.

    All that ‘kompromat’ that exists out there,

    1 - They are pushing massive $$$ into AI to get it good enough that the old kompromat is meaningless, because you wouldn’t be able to prove its AI or not

    2 - Putting in the foundation of censorship, so when that kompromat gets released, they can have the legal framework already in place to remove it as much as possible.

    After all that kompromat is rendered meaningless, who knows which way the world will go then. We basically return back to the days the world ran uninfluenced by pictures/video because either pictures/video didn’t exist back then, or the means to distribute it to the general populace to make that kompromat effective didn’t exist.

    • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
      3·
      3 days ago

      To retort:

      1. The AI push is to replace the high paying jobs required to make entertainment and tech infrastructure free of people. They want to have fewer people employed so the ruling class gets even more of the profits. Nevermind that to have a good economy, the masses have to get fucking paid.

      In addition, by replacing internet search with AI, they can try to bend the results to their wants and desires, much like how Hollywood movies largely represent the desired focus of producers and executives.

      1. The ruling elite have been trying to rein in the internet since the early 2000s. Now that the tech companies are the ruling elite, they don’t have anyone to resist them.
      • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
        1·
        2 days ago

        When ai and robots can do.all the labor and the bunkers are already built, what is the purpose of an economy?

        And what then is the purpose of the masses?

        We were always chattel.

        And soon, like livestock.