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Murdered by Words

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Responses that completely destroy the original argument in a way that leaves little to no room for reply - a targeted, well-placed response to another person, organization, or group of people.

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by TurboLag@lemmings.world to c/murderedbywords@feddit.uk
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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 17 points 3 days ago (4 children)
[–] anytimesoon@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is why I left feddit.uk 😔

[–] Tweak@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's got little to do with feddit.uk and more to do with IP. You can't even access lemmings.world directly with a UK IP. Even if you try to view this post on any other instance it will still be blocked.

It's a really annoying block, too. Because the instance is hosted outside of the UK's jurisdiction, and thus cannot be held to British law. It would only be an issue for the instance if they accept payments using payment processors, who are actually pushing all of this. It's MasterCard and VISA looking to fuck with people and make more money - one of the easiest accepted ways of verifying age is via a card transaction, which they get a cut of. Just like how they encourage tipping culture on their payment machines, now that everyone uses cards instead of cash - their transaction percentage charge includes the tip.

But yeah, I don't think the instance takes payments, so it's bullshit to block UK IPs in this way. It's a hollow social justice gesture that does harm instead of good.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

The issue is my client is in the uk, as it's drawing the image from op's instance

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