4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

Post by o11c » Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 7:54 PM UTC

m-s-y wrote: post #320

o11c wrote: post #300

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It's a huge stretch to call the existence of 4chan in anyone's best interests. First they came for 4chan and I said nothing, because good riddance! This is not a slippery slope; this is a spring trying to return to the center. The harder the resistance at the extremes, the more energetic the oscillation will be, so if we want to minimize that, work on undermining the intolerable extremes. The sheer anarchy of the lib…

>It's a huge stretch to call the existence of 4chan in anyone's best interests. Absolutely, 100% incorrect. You obviously don't approve of 4chan's content or mission, but that's not the point. It benefits everyone when anyone takes a stand because their legal rights are under attack. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." >This is not a slippery slope Again, incorrect. An…

Post by greenavocado » Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 8:10 PM UTC

hellojesus wrote: post #294

sejje wrote: post #201

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The authoritarians locking down the internet, not sure why you need to ask

They can try. > And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lai…

Post by uyzstvqs » Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 8:12 PM UTC

chii wrote: post #210

speedylight wrote: post #37

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I think eventually we will reach a point where laws like the Online Safety Act become so prevalent that it is basically impossible to comply with all of them simultaneously and still have a unified internet across the globe. I wouldn’t be surprised if in 10 years or so every country has its own version of the internet only intended for their own people.

> still have a unified internet across the globe. which might be the end goal - the internet, with freedom of communication, is a way that the plebs can organize and resist authoritarianism. And as countries are growing increasingly authoritarian (and i include UK here), they may be planning on preventing the old free internet that has enabled so much. So as technologists here at HN, there needs to be a pre-emptive s…

Post by LAC-Tech » Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 8:14 PM UTC

bentlegen wrote: post #31

sunshine-o wrote: post #2

I assumed 4chan didn't exist anymore and it was renamed/replaced by another board... Great advertisement. The UK acts like a madman on fire trying to attack everybody.

It stopped being relevant because its content became acceptable on major social networks, beginning in late 2022.

Post by Hikikomori » Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 8:16 PM UTC

caesil wrote: post #169

fruitworks wrote: post #41

I wouldn't be so sure it's an ideological stand. 4chan got hacked a while back because they were running a totally outdated software stack. It's been pretty much abandoned by its owner hiromoot. If they aren't going to update the site for basic maintainance, they definitely aren't going to implement all this chat control/ age verification bullcrap. I suppose a resistance to change is good when your competitors are bu…

I wonder what they're going to do when the states mandating age verification for pornographic content start coming for them. Very similar to these dystopian foreign laws. But because they're US states 4chan will not be able to use the "we only recognize US law" defense.