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

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

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Post by DeathArrow »

joe_mamba wrote: post #557
NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #544

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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. Bl…

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Am I reading these views on HN? I had to check, it seems yes. :)

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

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Post by DeathArrow »

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

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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.

Yes Maduro and his cronies are pure evil. But it's not another country business to intervene, kidnap or assassinate leaders.

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

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Post by kulahan »

pwdisswordfishy wrote: post #568
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…

> Ofcom really thinks that their laws apply globally. How silly of them. Obviously, only the US jurisdiction can do that.

Ofcom could do it too if they had like 25 aircraft carriers and 2 of the 3 largest air forces on the planet, the best intel network, the most advanced tools, the backing of a $25T economy, the…

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

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Post by __d »

ungreased0675 wrote: post #490
fc417fc802 wrote: post #433

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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.

I've been hearing that since the 1990's when it first started to become apparent that their economy was on track to overtake the rest of the world within a few decades.

It hasn't happened yet. Is there something you perceive as especially problematic now, as opposed to the last 30 years?

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

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Post by vasco »

FridayoLeary wrote: post #315
wao0uuno wrote: post #258

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4chan is probably one of the least brain damaging sites kids can go to these days. It has porn and stupid memes, true. But so does google if you turn the safe search off. It's the corporate run sites and services with ai powered recommendation engines that are the most problematic. Infinite scroll sites like reddit or tiktok are what really fucks up your brain. I used to frequent 4chan as a kid back in the day when i…

I agree with you about infinite scroll. I don't know you so i couldn't possibly comment on your other claim...

And all we know about is you believe the truth is a misspelled cake, so there we go.

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

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Post by vasco »

FridayoLeary wrote: post #308
ranger_danger wrote: post #168

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Hard disagree. I think the control should stay with the parents where it already is. They can decide whether or not to put protections in place or whether or not to hand them a device at all. We don't put protections on kids walking out the front door, and there's plenty of theoretical dangers there too. Let the parents educate their children.

The evidence shows they don't have sufficient control. Parents these days clearly are unequal to the task, i'm passing no judgement just observing. >We don't put protections on kids walking out the front door My view is that we most certainly ban and/or heavily discourage children from entering certain places and talking to random strangers. There are many safeguards in the real world, there is simply not enough in t…

You seem to be under the impression that having held an opinion and changing it means the new opinion is better by default, but that's not true.

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

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Post by Chaosvex »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #494
bromuk wrote: post #322

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I mean the US have nukes and they’re hardly stable and predictable. Allow them to have nukes, who are you lol

Given that the nukes that the UK has is Trident, which is a US system that the UK cannot use without US cooperation [0], it seems entirely appropriate that the USA gets to decide if the UK has nukes. [0] Yes, the UK can fire them without US approval, but the actual hardware is maintained and supported by the USA, and they have to be shipped to the USA regularly for maintenance. If the USA decided that the UK should n…

Imagine thinking that there aren't national security contingency plans for this sort of thing.

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Post by eucyclos »

ExoticPearTree wrote: post #575
nradov wrote: post #545

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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?

Do you mean the International Atomic Energy Agency?

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

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Post by tick_tock_tick »

epolanski wrote: post #427
troad wrote: post #423

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> This isn't about business but charges. There's no way in hell US can e.g. prosecute non us citizens from trading with Cuba Sure it can. It can do whatever it wants in its domestic courts. Turkmenistan can prosecute you and me right now for failure to pay insufficient deference to dear leader. Whether this impacts us in any way is the actual question. We presumably do not want to do business in Turkmenistan. But the…

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> In any case, since you're unaware, Canada and EU have legislation that prohibits Canadian and European companies from obliging with US embargo of Cuba. That is, I can face criminal charges in Europe or Canada for refusing services to Cuba.

Yet almost everyone in those countries falls inline with US law because frankly the US is the exception and it's laws de facto apply in Canada and the EU.

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