Let kids go to 4chan. I frequented it and turned out fine.
/wsg/ still has some of the best videos on the internet
4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
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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
California at least only has blackouts when pge causes another fire.
Re: 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
#573Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh sorry did it shift into the mid Atlantic or something? You need to learn the difference between Europe the continent and the EU the political union. The two are not interchangeable. The British continued to be European post 2020
On an article talking about regulations, assume the context is the latter.
Do you think that regulations is something that only EU does? I have a news for you: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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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.
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 ironic though, that you wrote your comment in English.
Re: 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
#575Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
> I mean Pakistan is probably less stable than the UK but I guess they're allowed to have nukes now?
Is there a nuke authority that I did not know about who decides who should and should not have nukes?
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Is it indicative of "economic irrelevance"?
Kinda. It's a single-digit percentage of just the US and China, clustered with a lot of other countries of roughly the same size [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
Just to be clear you're saying only the top 2 countries by GDP are "economically relevant"?
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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.
No idea, honestly. But if I lived in Taiwan I would be shitting bricks.
Re: 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
#578Ofcom 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…
Like most matters concerning the UK: unless your feet are touching their territory, the correct response to their actions, inactions, or very existence, is: "fuck off"
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>Britain still has colonies with millions of people in them. Britain does not have colonies. You might be thinking of the British overseas territory but the total population of those islands is less than 400,000
A small colony doesn't count?
I think it was in reply to the "with millions of people in them" comment.
Re: 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
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I think anyone running a website should avoid visiting the UK from now on.
Anyone owning 4chan should be very anonymous and only operate in a very friendly jurisdiction. Normal websites, no one cares.
Is 4chan much worse than X (or rather, is X much better than 4chan) these days?