Can we just block the UK from the Internet. So they can have their own Internet, like China. That will solve a lot of problems.
Why would an American website pay fines because of the laws of a random country?
I hope this encourages more companies/sites to fight back against stupid laws. If most keep complying, it’ll only get worse for them in the future when they make even worse laws.
Pull out all UK servers and ignore uk fines (assuming thats legal wherever u reside… idk how that works) or just pull out of uk.
I hope a country like switzerland or something lets companies host servers there for europe without enforcing dumb laws from uk/european union.
I don’t really understand how this works. If I’m a company whose entire infrastructure is in the US (for example, I don’t know if 4chan is like that) how can I get in trouble with the UK? I don’t have a legal entity there, I’m not doing any business on their soil whatsoever, how can they enforce their laws against me?
They’re “doing business” there by serving ads to their citizens, that’s the legal basis for suing them. Whether that goes anywhere depends on the laws governing the business and any leverage UK has (say, going after advertising who do business with the company and in the UK).
I think it only works if the country you are in allows it to happen, as in they have an understanding with the UK (in this case) to follow through with legal stuff. If they were in russia (for example), the UK probably couldn’t enforce anything.
Think it is down to the government of your country.
Calling 4chan the most hateful site on the Internet ignores the fact that xitter is a thing.
The kind of hateful rhetoric and grooming are not unique to 4chan, they happen on Facebook, discord, and roblox. 4chan has just been a minimally filtered representation of underground online cultures for decades now meaning it’s still just as much a font of creativity as it is a cesspool of internet refuse.
4chan has been mostly dead as a place of creativity for years. /b/ is mostly creepshots, AI generated porn, and a guy who has been spamming a picture inviting you to eat Andy Sixx’s shit for like 5 years now. /pol/ is basically Stormfront lite.
/lit/ and /mu/ were some of the best parts of 4chan but are shells of their former selves, some of the sfw boards sometimes have things of value but it’s time to move on.
4chan’s creativity died when the first Soyjak was posted.
Just because you’re comfortable with racial and homophobic slurs in most posts, doesn’t mean it’s not hateful.
I detest Elon and xitter as much as anyone, but there is zero comparison. If anything, it just shows how far you’ve gone.
I absolutely don’t care what happens to 4chan, but UK starting to fine the internet for being available there and not complying with their bullshit is worrying.
I don’t want the 4chan users to flock someplace else.
Believe me, they’ve already been everywhere you’ve been. It’s not like once you post on 4chan you’re forbidden from making accounts on every other website.
It’s like league of Legends. Sure, they play other games. But it keeps a lot of their time busy elsewhere.
A game would keep people entertained or engaged in some way, some kind of focused shared activity. But to 4chan, coordinating with other anons about what YouTube comments to spam, what subreddit to brigade, that was the game. Organizing a personal army of trolls (yes that personal army) was the whole point of being there.
In your analogy, a game of LoL takes place where all 10 players don’t play the game, they use global chat to decide on raiding Battlefield, DotA, or Overwatch. They then make a bunch of accounts, join some games, and rile people up with hate speech. Then they go back to LoL to share how angry they made other people.
Oh I know, but some place has to host their collective depravity. It might as well remain the 4chan site. I don’t think they can be gotten rid of or dispersed.
Everyone watch orange goo protect kids.
“4chan asks Donald Trump for help”
What a weird world.
Indeed, feeling the need to check, I can tell you that we’re not in the onion anymore…
If there’s someone prepared to argue in court about why the UK’s Act is a terrible idea, holy crap is it NOT 4chan
I wonder how discovery would go.
“Your honor here is 30 terabytes of beastiality porn, we think what you want is somewhere in there, have fun going through it”
I am surprised they are asking for any legal action at all instead of just laughing at it and ignoring all messaging from Ofcom. Maybe responding with a few shitposts
Probably because the US has agreements with the UK about prosecution of folks for stuff like this, and the resulting handling of court ordered punishments like fines. We only ignore things like that if you’re a spouse of a cia agent or something.
Go 4chan!
Not often I get to say that, but this is one case.
you definitely don’t have to praise the website for paedophiles.
He’s praising the site’s action, not the site itself.
So has Twitter, Youtube, Insta, Facebook and Lemmy.
OK so Trump is going to have to choose whether or not to side with fucking 4chan, you know, the site with regular pedophilia threads.
And how would Trump siding with nonces be a surprise?
It’s been a long time since I’ve browsed that cesspool, but I remember all the pedos getting banned and going over to the other image boards like 8chan. Been more than a decade though and that was when moot still ran things
They do pedo AI threads.
Gross
Man, either they strike a blow for online censorship or the UK laws do one decent thing and take out 4chan. Hilarious they’re trying to invoke trump tho like, when has that ever worked, he doesnt care about his bootlicking supporters…
It wouldn’t be the first time that he’s done something because Barron says all of his supporters want him to.
This is the best thing for everyone.
If Trump intervenes: Trump is forced to either acknowledge 4chan and potentially even be positive of it
If Trump intervenes: UK is forced to weaken the OSA
If Trump backs down: He looks weak, UK gets EU a win against American corpos
UK gets EU nothing, UK has left EU.
And the way their politics have gone to shit with mass surveillance and powerful lobbying from anti-LGBT groups, I prefer them not being represented in EU anymore.
It’s a win by non-Chinese western governments against American tech oligarchy’s desire to be above the law. Which makes it a win for the EU who wants to regulate them and a loss for American oligarchs.
Yes UK politics are fucked. Rest of Europe catching up as well. But I don’t envision a scenario where this clash between various bastards is anything but a win for anyone who isn’t a bastard.
Airstrip 1
I mean, they’re already creating the Ministry of Truth…
can’t wait for 4chan to die
uk just needs to dns block all of 4chan
You can block it yourself if you want to, it’s not hard to do
i do but 4chan should be eradicated from the internet permanently.
But then where will displaced trolls live? Will you adopt & feed a troll?
Dude I’ve seen private Lemmy MAP instances over TOR.
Kinda have to wonder what kind of person would see that sort of thing 🤔
