The UK government does not know how the internet works, nor do they care.
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2025
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Yet they're looking to control and censor it. Very troubling.
Fuck 4chan
And the uk
Good. USians must learn that they are not above the law.
The cringe is strong in this one.
Woukd be nice, though.
Cope
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
USians
I always wonder why people use such a term without the consent of the wishes of those who it purports to describe. e.g. I don't say "The Ukraine" anymore, but simply "Ukraine", bc that is what they asked to be called.
The term "US Americans" has zero negative implications, and even people from South or Latin American regions still say "American" not to refer to themselves but rather to people from the USA, yet "USians" makes it sound like you are talking down to people from the USA.
Now you know. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk🥳.
Americans
Okay, there are two continents called that, though. The country being talked about doesnt even cover half of one.
US Americans
Fuck thats a lot to type for some arrogant entitled shit heels that think they just deserve everyone else's labor. Nope.
USians
Sounds silly, like the idiots from the absurd place it's referring to. Plus it feels condescending, which IMO they tend to deserve–they're not exactly a well educated people.
Americans
Okay, there are two continents called that, though.
Fun fact: This actually depends on which part of the world you're from. In the US, we're taught that there are seven continents. Some countries teach that there are fewer. For examples:
- Some regions teach that "Eurasia" is one continent. In the US, we're taught that Europe and Asia are two separate continents.
- Some regions teach that "North America" and "South America" are one single continent called "America." I think this one seems to cause a lot of confusion across various cultures. If I understand correctly, some of these cultures recognize North, Central, and South America as subdivisions of the continent "America." Maybe this confusion is what leads to the creation of new terms like "USians."
I've never heard of an education system that teaches "two continents called America". That's fascinating. "This one is called America. This other one is also called America. However, they are not one continent; they are two continents with the same name." It seems like a confusing concept, IMO, but I suppose every culture has its quirks.
Appending a suffix like "ians" to an acronym is also an interesting concept. I'm not confident enough in my grammar skills enough to comment on whether it's (in)correct, but it's interesting to see language evolve. How is "USians" pronounced? Is it "U-S-ians"?
Cool story bro
Thanks.
Okay, there are two continents called that, though. The country being talked about doesnt even cover half of one.
Ngl, a fine start to an argument - truly I mean that. However, keep going: by your logic, trans women are not real women.
Think about it: trans women choose to be called by the pronoun "she". But you don't want to, so you will instead call them your choice of pronoun "he".
Americans can be silly, yes. But the terms used to describe anyone at all reflects more upon the users than to the group to whom they aim to refer to.
Ngl, a fine start to an argument - truly I mean that. However, keep going: by your logic, trans women are not real women.
This is a wild leap of logic.
Your username, 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠, is what I choose to call you - because it is what you have indicated to all of us that you want to be called. If I called you "buttface", and you objected, and I still continued to call you "buttface", how friendly would that be, on my end? Or perhaps that analogy is too strained, b/c it is a known derogatory term, so let's say instead that I choose to call you... "meowface" - would that be even the slightest bit better? Repeatedly, to your face as well as behind your back, over and over again, and btw this is because "I am such a nice man" as to have decided to call you "meowface" whereas the (somehow only?) other alternative was "buttface", so don't you see here what a favor I am doing for you?
I do not even have to believe that you are an actual "Chairman", it is just simple & basic respect. I choose to call you by the name that you chose for yourself, rather than the name that I made up for you.
You seem to be looking for things to misunderstand to make a problem to have an argument about, then throwing marginalized people under the bus to shock-shame people into.... What? Giving you internet points? That's fucked. Can you stop?
Or explain your real issue?
Again, totally irrelevant.
The argument made here is that a small subset of a group is claiming the nomenclature for the entire group for themselves, and that that is unjustified.
It'd be like trans women demanding to be called women (fair) but also requiring that other women no longer refer to themselves as women (unfair). Your metaphors completely omit the second part: the claiming of exclusivity of the name.
It's like Germans calling themselves Europeans, but simultaneously demanding the French don't do so. Don't expect them to honour that request.
Glad you consider naming a bullshit imperial power something convenient the same as transphobia.
Hey, can I ask the names of all the countries on the west coast of Europe are? Or what the water surrounding Cuba is called?
USians - people from the USA. Where is the problem?
Is the term "USians" just something UKians started using recently?
It seems like it? And ngl there's a certain amount of sense to it (or at least people who think about it for one second claim that, whereas people who think about it for three seconds have already moved past it), but it's still a nickname used by outsiders rather than chosen by those to whom it would apply. Plus often used in a denigrating manner such as here - imagine if instead it said:
Good. Cunts must learn that they are not above the law.
Or remember when George Bush went around renaming world leaders whatever he wanted to call them in that moment? Donald Trump is doing that lately too...
Traditionally, names used to have meaning, and USian is not a name that Americans have consented to be called. For me that is the end of the story, but I suppose for others who have more incel-like qualities the argument seems to remain that USians will be called by whatever they feel like and like it (I suppose in gratitude for having been deigned to be given any amount of thought at all?).
the quotes at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/USian suggest it has been in use by canadians since 2005. UKians may have picked it up more recently but that term doesn't really work in comparison, unless you want to emphasise that you are specifically including the northern irish
"USians" makes it sound like you are talking down to people
It's right there in the comment...
Let me show you this handy little guide:
Oops, that appears to apply to Portuguese and Spanish conversations, but all other comments in this context have been in English.
Mas eu estou aprendendo português e agradeço 🙂
It doesn't take interpreter to translate this picture but you can always use Google if you struggle.
Actually, I was already familiar with those words in Portuguese. However, your guide made me realize that I didn't know the Portuguese word for "South American." According to Google Translate, it's "sul-americano." Thanks for helping me learn 🙂
However, your guide is for Spanish or Portuguese, not English. This matters because most romance-language-speaking countries are taught that "América" is one continent. In contrast, most English-speaking countries are taught that North and South America are two separate continents, not one single continent called "America."
Who gives a fuck what USians learn at school? They also learn that USA is a democracy. 🙄
Did I mention anything exclusive to what schools in USA teach?
I did mention "most English-speaking countries" though. Is that what you're referring to? Here's a fun fact: USA is not the only English-speaking country. In fact, the language emerged from a place called England – hence the name ;)
Have a fun fact - I don't give a flying fuck.
If not, then why are you so hostile about it?
Actually – why are you so hostile about everything? It seems like most (or all?) of your recent posts and comments are negative, hostile, hateful, etc. You might be one of the most negative people on this platform. Do you just hate it here or something?
Your account is more than a year old (created 2024-07-05T02:03:51.795869Z). You have 334 posts and 4,412 comments. I'm very curious: If I were to run a sentiment analysis on that data, would it be possible to find a single positive thing you've ever said? Or even just "neutral" sentiment? Or are you just 100% pure hate?
That's simple - USians are people living in the USA and this is what I will keep calling them. They are not more "Americans" than people from Mexico or Canada.
And BTW, I am an extremely positive person, I just don't suffer fools gladly.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/not-suffer-fools-gladly