I was watching the new season of Man on the Inside last night and caught two pretty substantial references to the Good Place in this scene. Charles is standing beside a notice board at Wheeler College, and behind him is both a Dance Dance Resolution flyer (Jason's dance troupe) and an Acidcat flyer (a DJ who wears a cat head, who Jason once stood in for). Whether this is just an easter egg or is meant to hint that we're in the same universe is hard to tell, but it does add a bit more to the sneaky Eleanor cameo from last season.
There's also a clip from an episode of Veronica Mars that shows up in the last episode, which suggests that Kristen Bell exists as an actress in this world, but is that a confirmation that these are just references and nothing more, or is it a way to throw us off the scent of a spin-off centered around Michael's life as a human?
I suppose we'll have to wait and see.
That's not why they're blocking the UK.
The information commissioner's office found in an investigation that predates the OSA that they were selling users personal data and that some users were tagged as children (dediced from usage, not declaration) and were still sold. They said that if imgur didn't come up with a plan to exclude the users tagged as minors from sale, they would likely be liable for a fine. THAT'S when imgur blocked the UK. It's not actually the OSA that caused the fine, but imgur is happy for people to think it is because the OSA is unpopular.
But they were threatened with a fine for hoarding and selling children's browsing habits, though.
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Also, separately, imgur deleted a bunch of images for the crime of not having a paid subscription. It's silly to use a company who are so clearly starting down the enshittification route. We should switch to others who aren't, or they will all follow imgur's enshittification.
You can upload images directly to your instance while you post. We don't need a corporate image host, we're on the fediverse.
It's wild to me that so many of us left reddit for Lemmy because we found out that we shouldn't trust corporations with our user generated entertainment, and then people go and make the same mistake with imgur while they're enshittifying. Just upload to your instance.
Personally, I left Reddit a long time before because of control freaks with no lives who feel the need to dictate their personal preferences to others as though it were a dire moral emergency.