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

Post by pelorat » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 8:13 AM UTC

tacticalturtle wrote: post #349

dijit wrote: post #24

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They’re not breaking any law. Laws apply to actions in the country, they’re not based on citizenship. If you go to Amsterdam and sleep with a hooker, you didn’t break a law by doing that: despite prostitution (specifically purchasing sex) being illegal in many western countries.

> Laws apply to actions in the country, they’re not based on citizenship. According to what? Laws can be whatever a country says, so long as they have the mechanism to enforce it. See: the US using special forces to kidnap Maduro

Post by x3ro » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 8:23 AM UTC

Auracle wrote: post #609

reverius42 wrote: post #531

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> the US fully having its way with them So the Straights of Hormuz are totally reopened, right? Any day now?

It’s pretty damned hard to completely secure any area from a potential attack when all one side needs is a drone. That’s a pretty specific high bar when we’ve destroyed most of their navy, Air Force, etc, all within a couple of weeks.

Post by watwut » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 8:26 AM UTC

towledev wrote: post #360

roysting wrote: post #284

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It’s really kind of unfortunate that people ignore the fact that the ruling powers seem to always follow the same MO, yet everyone falls for it over and over again; first they go after the dregs that they’ve made beyond the pale for pearl clutching polite company, e.g., I think over a year ago, when the German government first went after Gab followed by something like, if not Ofcom itself. I don’t recall the outcome…

The fact that unsympathetic targets are the first to be targeted need not be viewed as strategic. Other targets would be defended, which is a reason not to target them. Unsympathetic targets lack defenses and are therefore most likely to be targeted, all other things being equal. We grant fully that it’s a slippery slope, ofc. But is the end of the slope in mind at the outset? Maybe, but not certainly.

Post by nslsm » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 8:27 AM UTC

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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.

Post by gib444 » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 8:33 AM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #530

gib444 wrote: post #520

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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.