The guy running it is apparently a Newfie.
I mean the dude that runs gamingonlinux is a gigantic fag, I remember joining his telegram channel so I didnt have to go to his website. At one point he got so assmad that people were using negative reacts on some posts, that he disabled them and started banning anyone from the gamingonlinux telegram chat that disagreed with it.
It didn't matter if you were a fag and opposed the lunacy. You still got banned. It's always the power tripping tranny jannies.
We're talking about personal jurisdiction. Where the servers are located isn't relevant. What's relevant is where their company is domiciled. As far as I can tell there is no company, and the guy running it (HI, LIAM DAWE) is literally running it himself... or, at the very least, there is no indication that he's incorporated anything. That leads us to his Linkedin. His LinkedIn very clearly states that he's in Plymouth, England, UK. So, yeah, they've certainly got personal jurisdiction over his shitty little web forum, and he'd rather just fold than deal with Ofcom's bullshit.
Unless those jannies are actually getting paid... no, there's no risk there. However, since it's pretty clear this is his own site, he's running it himself, and he's in the UK... yeah, he's cooked.
In this country, when someone says something is "well-meaning", that doesn't mean he thinks it's a good idea. At most it means he thinks the motivation behind it was not deliberately malicious, even if the outcome is clearly terrible. We call someone "well-meaning" when they're a complete fuck-up. Think of it like saying "bless your heart" in the southern US.
Only if he wants to (which he probably does). He's never going to set foot in this country and the US won't extradite for such a retarded law, so he can just tell the rozzers to fuck off, same as he did when the eu demanded takedowns of "illegal" things.So will Kiwifarms have to geoblock the UK now?
Plenty of stuff has been taken down and even more is behind a login wall. Though these small time forums are doing this as a form of "protest", I doubt they will actually close down.
Website quality instantly improved.
They won't want to create an international incident trying to extradite over some ridiculous law. They'll just do the easy tactic of DNS blocking the site like it's a torrent site or something and at worst, they'll attempt to prosecute users of the site in the UK who circumvent the block. Which is why people there should use a VPN / Tor.
They're going to have to cut Servo at this point.
Two words: binary logs. Burn in Hell Poettering.
He did this for Germany, not sure if that's still the case (apparently not since my IP is there now). Not out of hatred of Germans but because of some legal shit I forget the exact details of. It was to protect users.
>No matter how much you love Gnome and Flatpak
That take is even more retarded than some shit from when I was in high school: my pre-calc teacher (second semester of junior year) emphasized that "we don't care about math here, we care about people", which only made me wonder why he was teaching a high-school math class and not a fifth-grade people class. AP Calc in my senior year was a breath of fresh air, because it wasn't just not retarded, but interesting to learn.
No. Merely operating a forum that is accessible by citizens of the UK, without more, does not create personal jurisdiction under US law. It literally doesn't matter what the UK/OFCOM have to say about the matter because no US court is going to give a shit what they think. The only way they get their foot in the door is if dear feeder, in his capacity as Lord High Retard of Lolcow, LLC, sells anything to a britbong, thereby establishing personal jurisdiction over Lolcow, LLC (and hence the Farms) in the UK. So...... don't do that.So will Kiwifarms have to geoblock the UK now?
