• cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months ago

      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.