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Now, while Danbooru isn't a porn website, it does have explicit artwork - which some people could/would argue is "pornography."
So where does Danbooru fit into this scope, if and when the law passes? (Especially since the UK want overseas websites to obey this law.)
Would (UK) users need to validate their age in order to visit the site? Would Danbooru block UK users from visiting?
As a long time UK user, I'm just curious.
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They might want overseas websites to obey the law, but AFAIK, UK laws, or any other country laws, don't have any power in other countries unless explicitly recognized. What they can do (if, of course, this crap doesn't get muffled and forgotten once they get their votes/whatever they need right now), is either enforce age verification on provider level or block websites that don't comply on provider level. If it's the former, you're off the hook, simply verify and access - but somehow, I doubt this will be done. If it's the latter, then what can say - welcome to the club :3
I gotta say this website is extremely imprecise. What do they mean by "all websites"? Since Danbooru is an US website (I think :c), I'd say it is untouched by that law and it only apply to websites who have their servers in the UK or are there at home (which would make sense. They can't touch other countrie's laws.) Even though it is mentioned by by theit government. But I can later look up in our law to make my post more precise.
Ok, I was in a small conversation with another person and this person told me the following things:
1. The Law must not be again the own constitution or the law in the UK(i.e. of the UK (and yes, they have a constitution but it's a special one), the EU-Charter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_Fundamental_Rights_of_the_European_Union), the ECHR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_Rights) or the EEA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area). I can't tell you if this law breaks anything of these conventions.
2. If it doesn't brake against the laws (look above) the following is applied:
The UK can prohibit these websites in the UK (inland).
3. Doesn't apply here but if the servers are hosted in the UK, they can prohibit these as well if they want to since they have to follow the european (in general) or in this case the british law.
Jigsy said:
So if worst comes to worst, they'll just block all of Danbooru.
If the law comes through, danbooru needs to be flagged as one of these sites. I don't know what the exact content of the draft proposal is, but if it's against pornography, I see hardly a reason to block danbooru and I can't find another web site as the one you've posted.
