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Re:Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine by ascorbic on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @01:59AM (#45434737)
OK, but that's not true, pretty much anywhere. If it's illegal to provide a service to people in a country, it's illegal wherever your site is based. It may be hard to enforce, and in most cases the authorities won't try, but if it's serious enough then they totally will. This is the same basis for extraditing people who sell rootkits or CSAM, or for when the US imprisoned the bosses of European gambling companies on charges of providing services to US customers. BetOnSports was a listed companies in London, and sports betting is legal in the UK. Didn't stop the US authorities arresting and imprisoning the CEO for years when he took a flight that connected via Dallas. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8339338.stm)
Re:Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine by aydyn on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @02:14AM (#45434823)
In other words, might makes right. Law is only as valid as the implied violence if you break it.