[matthewmacleod]

For the love of god, please stop spreading these misinformed views.

1. Nobody in Europe will be blocking anything.

2. The Wayback machine will continue to operate.

3. GDPR is generally pretty well-written legislation, based on extensive experience by privacy regulators across Europe.

There are some questions about exactly how the rules will evolve in practice. The thing to bear in mind is that privacy regulators are interested in compliance, not in punishment.

[TomMarius]

I don't disagree (nor agree), but trusting Europe to not block anything is wrong. There are EU countries that are right now blocking something. Porn in UK, foreign gambling sites in Czech Republic and of course Telegram in Russia.

Edit: I of course know that Russia is not in the EU, lol. Parent said "Europe" and I added Telegram as a fun remark after two serious examples (and there are more). Calm down with the downvotes.

[Liquid_Fire]

Russia is not part of the European Union, and FWIW porn is not blocked in the UK right now.

[JetSpiegel]

Russia is not in the EU.

The porn block in the UK (or opt-in block, more like) is a voluntary measure taken by ISP.

[merinowool]

Certain types of porn are illegal in the UK (for example depicting female squirting or face sitting). In April they supposed to introduce age check to all porn websites willing to operate in the UK, which essentially means every website that has porn (for example Reddit) should be behind the pay wall, as age check supposed to be done via credit card transaction. Now this has been delayed, but I don't think they are backing out on that. Furthermore this is going to be a huge problem, because: 1) Payment processors are frowning upon the idea of servicing porn websites. That means it is going to be very expensive to implement unless government figures out a different way. 2) Companies will have to store more personal data about their viewers and users will be forced to give up that data. 3) That poses a huge risk in case of the data breach as someone sexual preferences are sensitive data forced to be collected.

[antihero]

There's a new one coming into effect that will force websites to verify people's age using their ID (possibly by an external provider). Or I guess be blocked? Still a fucking stupid idea.

[rad_gruchalski]

Russia isn't EU.