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Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act

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Re: Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act

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Do members of parliament also need to provide their IDs when they want to jerk off?

Yes, but we pay for their VPN: https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/nordvpn-is-the-most...

Perhaps this whole ofcom business is the result of foreign VPN companies lobbying to increase market penetration in the UK?

Because they're the only ones who are profiting from this fiasco! /s

Re: Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act

#62

Do they even have any legal presence in UK to fine?

It can stop the owners being able to travel to the UK or risk being detained.

> It can stop the owners being able to travel to the UK or risk being detained.

Big loss, that destination.

Re: Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume it's mostly symbolic and/or serving some greater legal purpose.

Threatening with prison or a fine of double digit millions of pounds doesn't seem very symbolic.

They didn't just threaten anything - they imposed the fine. Imposing a fine while knowing that it likely will never be collected is the very definition of "symbolic".

Re: Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act

#64

Many people are saying this is symbolic and cannot be enforced. Unfortunately, that's just not true. Look at what happened to the founder of Telegram. Some jurisdiction decides you're violating their laws, all you need to do is catch a connecting flight or take a vacation on their soil or a place that will eagerly extradite, and you're a political prisoner. What happens if one of the officers of 4Chan or Gab is on a…

> The UK is a police state.

No it isn’t.

Re: Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act

#65

I was not aware of the main driver, not mentioned, sanctioned suicide even existing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctioned_Suicide

Now that they banned discussing suicide online I'm sure the number of suicides will plummet.

Re: Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act

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post #61
post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but we pay for their VPN: https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/nordvpn-is-the-most...

Perhaps this whole ofcom business is the result of foreign VPN companies lobbying to increase market penetration in the UK? Because they're the only ones who are profiting from this fiasco! /s

All the normie podcasts now falsely advertising VPNs as panaceæ for every possible security problem are cashing in too.

Re: Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act

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One interesting bit is that the lawyer, RONALD D. COLEMAN is (or at least was) a youtube lawyer.

He'd pop into 'law streams' from time to time to talk about cases and discuss newsworthy events out of the courts.

He is as if New Jersey was transmuted into a man (I say that with great affection).

I want to say, and I could be wrong, I became familiar with his name during the Rittenhouse trial. Or maybe the couple high profile trials after the Rittenhouse trial, that were popular while we all waited for covid to be 'over'.

For whatever that's worth

edit: he IS a real lawyer with real clients and real cases. I don't want to diminish anything because I called him a 'youtube lawyer'. I think it's more: A lawyer that sees value in being on youtube from time to time.

Re: Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act

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post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It can stop the owners being able to travel to the UK or risk being detained.

> It can stop the owners being able to travel to the UK or risk being detained. Big loss, that destination.

London is the third most visited city and Heathrow is the second most popular airport by international visitors. The prospect of being arrested upon arrival there might be a little annoying.

Re: Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act

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post #35

Do members of parliament also need to provide their IDs when they want to jerk off?

Yes, but we pay for their VPN: https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/nordvpn-is-the-most...

Think of all the kompromat VPN services could have.
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