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

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Post by kelvinjps10 »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #513
harry8 wrote: post #503

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Did it work out better for North Korea or Iran?

North Korea is still standing and even got Trump to play diplomacy. Only reason Iran got attacked is the fact they didn't have nukes yet . Venezuela showed everyone what happens when you're a toothless country. USA shows up at your door uninvited, fucks your shit up, takes your oil and kidnaps your president for good measure, just to tack on some extra humiliation. Don't get me wrong, Maduro deserved an even worse fa…

As Venezuelan nothing angers me more than someone naming Maduro as our president, and that in some way I should feel bad about it. The guy and his government were pure evil.

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

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Post by maest »

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…

Fyi, large states in the US routinely have rolling blackouts and brownouts.

Texas, California (the richest state lmao), Puerto Rico, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi etc

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

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Post by senordevnyc »

epolanski wrote: post #397
sippeangelo wrote: post #335

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4chan is clearly operating in the US. The UK can easily cut the overseas cables and fix the problem!

It doesn't matter where 4Chan is incorporated if it offers a service available to other countries. If I offer a service in US I still have to respect US law, it doesn't matter that I'm based in Luxembourg or New Zealand. The same applies in reverse. E.g. many US news outlets never cared to implement gdpr and geoblocked European users from accessing their websites.

I run a site in the US and have zero intention of implementing GDPR or geoblocking anyone. If the feckless EU bureaucrats don’t want me serving Europeans, they can either block me or convince their citizens to stop requesting things from my servers. Beyond that, they can fuck off.

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

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

heavyset_go wrote: post #519
joegibbs wrote: post #368

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Their cultural decline seems to have definitely accelerated recently. Even 10-15 years ago it seemed like there was so much more British influence in the media, a lot more films and television set in Britain. It seems like the London Olympics were a kind of last hurrah. Even here in Australia which has always historically had more British influence than anywhere else it's receded - there's very little focus on their…

It's deliberate isolationism, the same isolationism that drove Brexit

There are two kinds of "isolationism". In the first, the person becomes a hermit refusing to interact with anyone.

In the second, a cult grabs hold of the person and isolates them from their families and loved ones so they can brainfuck them. And, I suspect this has happened to the UK. England doesn't want to be a land for the English, because to do so would make them racist. They have strength in their diversity. Blah blah blah. And the English can't be allowed to talk with anyone else or they might realize how fucked-in-the-head all that nonsense is. They are under the spell of a cult, not as individuals, but collectively. And that cult won't be done with them until it's taken everything from them and coerced them to sign a "billion year contract". And to top it off, you're blaming it on them.

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Post by nradov »

observationist wrote: post #318
15155 wrote: post #248

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> Ofcom really thinks that their laws apply globally. The cries of a long-since-dead empire slowly fading into geopolitical irrelevance.

Not so slowly. They've gone from a more or less respectable smaller country to more or less politically, culturally, and economically irrelevant in less than 10 years. I even question whether it's rational to allow them to have nukes; they should probably be required to give them up to some country that has a shot at remaining a stable and predictable geopolitical entity over the next century.

Not that I necessarily disagree but rationality doesn't enter into it. I mean Pakistan is probably less stable than the UK but I guess they're allowed to have nukes now?

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

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Post by bigfatkitten »

spacedcowboy wrote: post #191
bigfatkitten wrote: post #136

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> even if their citizenry can access it; it's on them to block that access if they don't like it Not even China and North Korea whine about or send fake “fines” to offshore entities. They just block their sites and move on with life.

[sigh] and this is the first (mandated) step in that process. The UK don’t expect 4chan to pay the fine, which means, once the period to pay has expired, they’ll just be blocked instead.

They could skip that step entirely if the relevant legislation was people with even a general grasp of geography and how the Internet works.

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

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Post by matheusmoreira »

kelvinjps10 wrote: post #541
matheusmoreira wrote: post #513

Earlier quoted context omitted.

North Korea is still standing and even got Trump to play diplomacy. Only reason Iran got attacked is the fact they didn't have nukes yet . Venezuela showed everyone what happens when you're a toothless country. USA shows up at your door uninvited, fucks your shit up, takes your oil and kidnaps your president for good measure, just to tack on some extra humiliation. Don't get me wrong, Maduro deserved an even worse fa…

As Venezuelan nothing angers me more than someone naming Maduro as our president, and that in some way I should feel bad about it. The guy and his government were pure evil.

You guys should have been the ones to personally get your hands on him. Hope you're doing alright now. Situation is far from perfect but at least one tyrant is gone.

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

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Post by jen20 »

petcat wrote: post #291
ascorbic wrote: post #282

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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.

"You’re taking bets from U.S. customers → you’re violating U.S. law" This is different than 4chan allowing UK viewers to access the website at all.

Why? It doesn't strike me as remotely different.

Country A has a law that says X is illegal, and tries to enforce it against companies in country B where X is legal.

Whether either case is reasonable is a different question, though.

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Post by Aurornis »

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…

> and they’ve put as much as 2 billion dollars into it. and yes, that’s billion, with a B.

The original report that cited the $2 billion number was AI generated slop. The $2 billion number wasn't from Meta, it was from Arabella Advisors.

The AI-generated report showed only about $20-30 million in lobbying efforts per year across all lobbying.

Even the Show HN post was full of AI slop, claiming things like "months of research" when the Claude-generated report showed it began a couple days prior.

So please stop repeating this AI generated junk. It dilutes any real story and the obvious falsehoods make it easy for critics to dismiss.

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