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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 nephihaha »

stackghost wrote: post #454
wolvoleo wrote: post #412

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A small colony doesn't count?

They're not colonies. An overseas territory is not the same thing as a colony.

You can rebrand something as a territory or a dependency (or a DOM-TOM in the French case) but they're still the same. Even during the height of colonialism many of these places had some self-government and even democracy (Hong Kong). That was partly a practical consideration as many of them were so far away they had to run themselves to some extent.

But not all of Britain's colonies are far away.

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

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Post by schnitzelstoat »

agilob wrote: post #245
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. Just 2 months ago Italy tried to ban domains globally too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555760

Spain blocks all of Cloudflare during big football matches because people might use it to watch pirate streams. :/

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Daviey wrote: post #492
observationist wrote: post #318

Earlier 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.

"allow"? Under what authority and governance would you remove them?

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

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Post by bspammer »

demorro wrote: post #309

As a Brit this is so embarrassing I wish they would stop. Doesn't really seem like there's an anti-authoritarian party available to us either.

The most embarrassing part of that article is the comment section. Not a single dissenting voice.

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

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Post by imtringued »

__d wrote: post #586
stackghost wrote: post #454

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're not colonies. An overseas territory is not the same thing as a colony.

The people living there might struggle to identify the difference?

Mauritius and La Réunion are doing much better than say Madagascar.

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Post by Blahagun »

LightBug1 wrote: post #246

Anyone want to sell/explain 4chan for me? I haven't thought about it at all since the last time I looked there maybe about 2 years ago. Still looks shit. What's the enduring appeal?

Why do you have the opinion that it's shit? What have you seen there and what were you expecting? Are you aware that there are many different boards on 4chan, covering pretty much whatever you can think of? The reason for 4chan being a somewhat odd and interesting place is because the people who frequent it are immune to slander. It takes a different type of a person to be immune to it. This creates especially interesting and honest discussions.

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Post by Rebuff5007 »

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…

The UK government is trying to regulate a service used by UK citizens / residents. What part of this seems unreasonable?

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Post by wongarsu »

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 rule of law is worse than might makes right? Or what do you perceive as the opposite of "might makes right?"

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Post by [deleted] »

eucyclos wrote: post #589
ExoticPearTree wrote: post #575

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

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