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There are already a lot of products and services created to block adult material. Instead of wasting millions of dollars and thousands of hours of human power, they could've made a law to opt-in to these services at the service provider level.
For example, in this situation, nearly all blocking services would block 4chan.
They tried that. Don't underestimate the progress already made towards building the Great Firewall of Britain. I guess the main problem was that when the blocking was optional, too many people chose to opt out.
Wow so many people disagreed that it flipped. Almost like people don't want it
Yea, but don’t you see, wee need to protect the kids.
right right right, you're right, please take away my privacy to help parents not need to parent their children!!!
Your privacy is not as important as childrens safety on the interwebs. What do you think happens if they grow up and see media that isn’t government licensed.
First off thank you for the info. Second what comes next is not directed towards you.
SO WHAT THE FUCK IS THE FUCKING PROBLEM THEN?!
then ban 4chan in the uk. nothing of value would be lost.
Problem is, it won't stop with 4chan.
I didn't even think it was accessible? I tried accessing it donkeys ago and my ISP had it blocked. Maybe there was a parental control enabled or something. Who knows.
Weird idea: what if the government set up a system where the website will be blocked unless you verify your age with gov.uk? And anyone trying to get to it will have to pass by gov.uk tokens first. Although https might make that difficult.
Of course, I fully disagree with the OSA. But it's... An alternative.
But why do that when they can just shift the burden onto the other party (the website), and demand money from them too?
In this case; the UK is reaching too far. Genuinely speaking; they don't have the right to fine you if you don't live or operate in that country. 4chan never did have any legal presence in the UK; even if it did accept 'donations' from UK citizens.
At worst; the UK can block 4chan from being accessed in their country and seize any money sent to 4chan by their citizenry in the future. I doubt anyone would care if that's what they did.
The US specifically even states in it's constitution that no citizen shall have laws imposed on them by another country that restrict their freedoms.
As always, 4chan good guys
sarcasm?