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USA doesn't block websites. The FBI will seize domains after some judicial review and a court order. That's about it.
The US arrested and imprisoned the bosses of multiple UK-based gambling sites that were not only legal in the UK – they were listed on the London Stock Exchange.
This is different than 4chan allowing UK viewers to access the website at all.
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Most Brits already have a VPN to beat off so the effect will be negligible.
"Most" is probably not accurate. I can't imagine the average middle aged individual in the UK has a VPN they use regularly. I'd be pleasantly surprised if that was the case.
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After bending over backwards for US media companies in the 2000s they thought it went both ways, turns out it doesn't. Oh well, the uncensored web from my NL VPN still looks the same.
NL VPNs will bend the knee to EU regulation
We can move much faster then they can legislate.
Anyone want to sell/explain 4chan for me? I haven't thought about it at all since the last time I looked there maybe about 2 years ago. Still looks shit. What's the enduring appeal?
These days everything on the internet is controlled and monitored. Modern 4chan is hosted on cloudflare and is without any doubt "pozzed". Any illusion of real anonymity has dissolved a long time ago. Lots of bots there too. You missed it by at least 15 years.
Please report to the closest police station
Miniluv
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A gf asked to go on a trip to England/Ireland and I told her I will go to Brazil or Colombia before I go to the UK. Im not going to risk getting in trouble because I made a post online or discussed immigration or trans people in the wrong way according to them.
No chance I'd go to America, as they definitely check that sort of thing at the border now. Not sure how often that happens coming to the UK, yet.
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USA doesn't block websites. The FBI will seize domains after some judicial review and a court order. That's about it.
Yes, you've just described one method the US authorities use to block websites. They also force ISPs to block IPs [0]. I feel trying to say that's not "blocking websites" is playing games with words, and the results are functionally the same to the "average" user. The fact that the US effectively claim juristiction over the root DNS system is a more a geopolitical power thing rather than a legal restriction. [0] http…
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That's true but not relevant to the spirit of the point.
It is relevant. There's a material difference between shipping material overseas and shipping it (and handling it) within the destination country. If someone mails $ProhibitedItem at a USPS to the UK, then it's the job of local UK police and/or customs to reject the parcel if it is prohibited. It's the UK's problem, de facto if not de jure, because the sender is out of reach. If someone with a UK subsidiary and local…