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minus-squaredarklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·18 hours ago to more obscure and risky providers who don’t care about the law instead There’s no need to go that far, there will still be plenty of well-known and trustworthy providers who care about the law but simply operate outside of UK jurisdiction.
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 hours agoIn that case they have to geoblock UK to be out of UK jurisdiction. Which a lot of these providers are already doing. And if they aren’t doing it themselves, the UK will likely do it for them by forcing UK network providers to block them.
There’s no need to go that far, there will still be plenty of well-known and trustworthy providers who care about the law but simply operate outside of UK jurisdiction.
In that case they have to geoblock UK to be out of UK jurisdiction. Which a lot of these providers are already doing.
And if they aren’t doing it themselves, the UK will likely do it for them by forcing UK network providers to block them.