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

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Post by oytis »

gib444 wrote: post #520
userbinator wrote: post #466

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The UK is no longer part of Europe.

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

Reminds me of some British MP who said around Brexit time Britain is not leaving Europe geographically. Anyway, Russia or Turkey are geographically in Europe too, but when we are talking about "European regulation", it's pretty obvious that these are excluded, and so is Britain after 2020.

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Post by defrost »

imtringued wrote: post #643
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.

That's true, but the one child policy has backed them into a corner. A society that is unwilling to replace itself will inevitably decline.

The policy in place for 36 years, that ended 11 years ago had pros and cons, but it hasn't backed them into a corner of inevitable decline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy

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Post by danlitt »

nslsm wrote: post #636
nehal3m wrote: post #591

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Might makes right I guess.

As much as I dislike the results of that, the opposite would be worse.

The opposite? Literally any justification would be "opposite". Any justification is better than no justification!

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Post by notahacker »

culopatin wrote: post #444
tw04 wrote: post #440

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The US thinks their laws apply globally so why wouldn’t Europe expect the same. We will be dealing with the fallout of Venezuela for generations.

So because a window is broken in the neighborhood you go out and smash your own?

Nah, in context it's more like if your neighbourhood police have been sanctioning counterfeiters across our borders for years, we're not going to take lectures on how inappropriate it is for our neighbourhood police to pick on your pimps too seriously.

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

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Post by defrost »

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.

They'll likely skate over the current turbulence that's already hitting many non-China countries.

China has been preparing for a global energy crisis for years. It is paying off now

  As other Asian economies race to conserve energy, China has huge reserves of oil and gas as well as alternative energy sources like wind and solar
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/20/china-oil-rese...

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

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Post by nephihaha »

stackghost wrote: post #371
nephihaha wrote: post #331

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Long dead? Within living memory. Britain still has colonies with millions of people in them.

>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

"You might be thinking of the British overseas territory"

Not just them, but I'll leave it at that.

Some years ago when the United Nations started critiquing colonies, the British overseas ones were rebranded as "territories" and "dependencies." (The French still have overseas colonies, the so called DOM-TOMs, and also some nearer to home.)

Some of these overseas ones like Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands have overwhelming support for British rule thanks to an aggressive neighbour. Some of these remaining colonies have active independence movements with varying support.

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Post by philipallstar »

nehal3m wrote: post #591
kulahan wrote: post #583

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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…

Might makes right I guess.

Now apply your critique to Ofcom.

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Post by philipallstar »

solid_fuel wrote: post #630
pwdisswordfishy wrote: post #568

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

Good news/bad news, our current leaders are far too incompetent to successfully plan and execute a regime change operation. Bad news is they're stupid enough to try anyway and have a lot of weapons.

They don't need to change a regime. Just cut off a major ally of China and Russia.

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Post by 4ggr0 »

i love the cognitive dissonance of some USians in this comment section who believe in both of these statements:

"4chan is a US company operating in the US, sure it serves content to global users but the jurisdiction is the US, we have free speech, ..."

"Sure, Company X is operating in Europe, but it also serves US users so it has to respect our laws and it's warranted for the US to apply pressure and fines."

at least decide for one side of the argument instead of just going the blind patriot way.

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Post by shellac »

lovich wrote: post #376
shellac wrote: post #231

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Then somebody needs to let the government know, because the relevant 1981 act is "[a]n Act to make fresh provision about citizenship and nationality". In that 'British subjects' are a quite limited subset of citizens. Most British people are citizens, not subjects. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/61/contents

What’s the difference? I’m not knowledgeable enough about English law to parse this

My (really limited) understanding is that 'British subject' was the status of people in the British empire. It's now reduced to just some people born pre-1949 in Ireland and India. They have many of the rights of citizens, and can become citizens via a simpler route than other non-nationals.
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