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4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This story is about the UK government screwing its own subjects. US is not involved in any of this. Ironic, given that US is involved in almost everything these days.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Can you read?

The controversial online forum 4chan risks being blocked in the UK after refusing to pay a fine from Ofcom for breaking rules set by the Online Safety Act.

The website, which hosts adult content, was handed a £20,000 for failing to share information about the risk of illegal content on its platform.

“That Americans don’t obey British censors is a matter of settled US law,” Preston Byrne, managing partner of law firm Byrne & Storm, which represents 4chan, told The Telegraph.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

No this is an actual problem, complying with the rules can cost a not insignificant amount of money, deliberate or not its essentially a way to price smaller competitors out of the market. Same thing should happen to lemmy under the same law in about 20 years when the UK government gets around to learning it exists.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's almost as if the effort was financially backed by the failing web2.0 empire (aka centralized social media and Big Tech webpages) specifically to help it remain competitive against the rising wave of web3.0 sources (decentralization such as the Fediverse). Oh ah, I mean "for the children", yeah...

[–] superniceperson@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You vastly overestimate the influence of the fediverse. This is a cash grab and a monitoring scheme, nothing more or less. Bills like this have been proposed in the us and uk since before web 2.0 was a fever dream of the most deranged creatives rooming with engineers.