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

Post by hunterpayne » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 3:58 AM UTC

epolanski wrote: post #265

ecshafer wrote: post #39

UK fining an American company for this is absurd. 4Chan isn't breaking any laws. You can make it illegal for your own citizens but you can't regulate a foreign business. UK citizens should fight for the right to free speech though.

> You can make it illegal for your own citizens but you can't regulate a foreign business The us does that regularly. There's thousands of companies that cannot do business with entities from countries like China or they can face criminal charges in US. A former company I had as a client, EU based SaaS faced this.

Post by intended » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 4:03 AM UTC

toofy wrote: post #438

onetimeusename wrote: post #419

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I didn't see it that way. It seems like NGOs and IGOs have been pushing for internet restrictions for a long time. There has suddenly been a push for age restrictions allegedly because of abuse material. This happens annually. Some international group claims there needs to be something draconian abolishing encryption, or some other privacy invading measure to stop child abuse and help security. The laws are 1000s of…

> It seems like NGOs and IGOs have been pushing for internet restrictions for a long time. There has suddenly been a push for age restrictions allegedly because of abuse material. This happens annually. we’re seeing some good evidence the most recent pushes were secretly funded and directly written by meta, the corporation. [0][1] according to the link in there, > Rep. Kim Carver (R-Bossier City), the sponsor of Loui…

Post by rcxdude » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 4:06 AM UTC

jdkee wrote: post #357

tim333 wrote: post #274

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The UK I don't think has arrested anyone for running a website.

The police in the UK have arrested more than 12,000 citizens for online speech. https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2025/09/09/people-a...

Post by rcxdude » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 4:09 AM UTC

Nursie wrote: post #493

jdkee wrote: post #357

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The police in the UK have arrested more than 12,000 citizens for online speech. https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2025/09/09/people-a...

I mean yes and no. Looking through that article, one of the examples is "The wife of a conservative politician was sentenced to 31 months in prison for what police said was an unacceptable post." But if you dig into what happened - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3wkzgpjxvo "The wife of a Conservative councillor has been jailed for 31 months after calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire." This…

Post by userbinator » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 4:12 AM UTC

dukeyukey wrote: post #461

abletonlive wrote: post #203

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> One can agree or disagree with this but Europe's actions are far more understandable if you see where they're coming from. I think you're falsely attributing this to WW2. Free speech is simply just not part of European culture in the way that it is a part of american culture. The ideal of "free speech" regardless of how well that ideal is implemented in practice is something that is much more instilled in US cultur…

Worth pointing out the modern American conception of freedom of speech is super recent. It only really became a thing in the 1970s. Before then, restrictions on porn, film, even written materials on controversial subjects like abortion could and were regulated.