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4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches

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Post by BobbyJo »

swarnie wrote: post #189
EmbarrassedHelp wrote: post #184

Ofcom is currently threatening a Canadian forum that exists to help people with depression. Ofcom claims that geoblocking blocking the UK is "insufficient": > I've also gone back to Ofcom explicitly telling them the UK was now geoblocked (twice now) and I received a response that this was insufficient. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1rk690v/i_ru... Ofcom really thinks that their laws apply gl…

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.

I mean, IP meant a lot more in 2006 than in it does now in 2026. The IP economy has basically died, so of course IP/Data based trade deals no longer make sense.

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Post by peyton »

nemomarx wrote: post #447
andrewflnr wrote: post #442

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totalitarianism aside, I'm not sure about the stability either. Personally I suspect Xi Jinping's reign will end with some kind of bang, either an economic one or something relating to invading Taiwan.

Would the us currently defend Taiwan? I think they might get the chance to just take it, especially if we get another president like Trump in 28.

Yes obviously. We would erase President Xi and his family as well. What are they going to do, cross the Pacific? Our total willingness to do is unconditional.

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Post by robocat »

magospietato wrote: post #361
urbandw311er wrote: post #354

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It’s kind of sad to read your arrogant and xenophobic rantings. I’m not sure you’re really down for the sort of inclusive and open minded discussion that normally takes place here.

Living here the decline is tangible. And this is West Oxfordshire; not one of the poorer parts of the country. An example in microcosm: a local village suffered road flooding due to failed maintenance of water pipes. Our rent-seeking privatized water company effected the minimum repair required by regulation. The next section of old pipe burst almost immediately, flooding the road further for most of January, utterly…

> An example in microcosm: a local village suffered road flooding due to failed maintenance of water pipes

Your example only compares against the UK past.

It has zero relevancy because it says nothing about relative change against other countries.

Anecdotally for the USA, I went to New Orleans last year, and I was stunned at the rotting infrastructure. Coming from New Zealand, the USA seems to be trying to copy the trajectory of Argentina.

Then again, I see serious problems in my hometown (e.g. sewage treatment plant) and country (e.g. big problems with rail, ferry, air, electricity, 3 waters). Apart from the societal issues that it seems all countries are facing.

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Post by themafia »

InvertedRhodium wrote: post #417
themafia wrote: post #299

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A court issued that ruling. Not an administrative agency. Pretty big difference.

So if the UK gets a court to ratify these orders then you’re on board with them being globally enforced?

I think one advantage is you can directly appeal a court ruling. To challenge an administrative order you need to sue the government. In some cases, you need to sue the government in a separate trial first, in order to get permission to start suing them for cause in another one.

Another advantage as the other reply has mentioned is that courts have broad authority but must narrow the effect of their rulings to the minimum necessary to address the suit. In this case it would certainly lead to 4Chan being blocked by UK ISPs by order of a UK court. I think even 4Chan would be fine with that.

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

sedatk wrote: post #410

Is 4Chan still accessible from the US states with age verification laws? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_age_verification_...

In Tennessee, 4chan is accessible without verification (but does block many porn aggregators, e.g. pornhub, redgifs).

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Post by k33n »

inopinatus wrote: post #468
observationist wrote: post #327

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>who are you lol The US. Who else on the planet would have the effective power to possibly even think about who should and shouldn't have them, while plausibly being able to do anything about it?

Given how the situations w.r.t Ukraine & Iran escalated, the US is the only country that has specifically and publicly demonstrated it's inability on both counts. We can't give Ukraine their nukes back because they were decommissioned (and they were rotting at the time), but there'd be no nation more deserving. Corollary: no individual nation is able to shoulder such responsibilities.

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Post by hunterpayne »

dgroshev wrote: post #420
cs02rm0 wrote: post #204

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I don't know why this is being downvoted. It's depressingly true; it seems the UK really heading quickly towards a Great Firewall, they've been looking to control VPN use [1] and the top most read article on BBC News right now is yet another public sector cover up of children being sexually abused. [2] [1] https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/uk-govern... [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyzy0y2…

> the UK really heading quickly towards a Great Firewall > top most read article on BBC News right now is yet another public sector cover up Do you not see a tiny little bit of contradiction here (regardless of your mis-characterisation of the second link)

No, I think it is you who is confused. The GP's point is that the BBC article isn't accurate or honest. You seem to have assumed the information in the link was accurate when the proof the GP implied was that the link isn't accurate.

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Post by ungreased0675 »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #433
gerdesj wrote: post #421

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China's wot?

I don't personally like their government but at this point they certainly have the appearance of long term social and political stability. More than most western countries for the time being.

China has a host of factors that make their current system very fragile. I doubt they make it five more years before turbulence hits.
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