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

Post by astura » Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 12:58 PM UTC

speedylight wrote: post #37

nickslaughter02 wrote: post #3

> Two days later, US Federal Trade Commission chairman Andrew Ferguson warned big tech firms they could be violating US law if they weakened privacy and data security requirements by complying with international laws such as the Online Safety Act. How will this work with chat control? > "If Ofcom doesn't think this will be enough to prevent significant harm, it can even ask that ISPs be ordered to block UK access." I…

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.

Post by jofla_net » Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 1:07 PM UTC

jeroenhd wrote: post #14

jmclnx wrote: post #8

>If Ofcom doesn't think this will be enough to prevent significant harm, it can even ask that ISPs be ordered to block UK access. Well again I guess the UK never heard of VPNs, but they are trying to ban them still, it is like these pols have no clue how the internet works. They never learn these actions are like playing wack-a-mole.

VPNs are next: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo

Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF » Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 1:09 PM UTC

firesteelrain wrote: post #40

bentlegen wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What content in particular?

Post by GeoAtreides » Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 1:16 PM UTC

sunrunner wrote: post #44

jeroenhd wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VPNs are next: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo

I’m curious about what the plan is to differentiate between legitimate business use and personal use of any kind. Age verification obviously won’t work for self-hosted, so does age verification then get pushed to VPS providers? And at that point, so what? I’m already paying with legitimate bank details for legitimate personal use.

Post by sunrunner » Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 2:13 PM UTC

GeoAtreides wrote: post #57

sunrunner wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m curious about what the plan is to differentiate between legitimate business use and personal use of any kind. Age verification obviously won’t work for self-hosted, so does age verification then get pushed to VPS providers? And at that point, so what? I’m already paying with legitimate bank details for legitimate personal use.

do you think the public at large knows what VPS are? How to set up a VPN? the public at large barely understands the concept of files nowadays, if it's not app they're lost banning selling VPN and VPN apps will solve 90% of the problem and that's enough