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4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence

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Post by HDThoreaun »

Ray20 wrote: post #596
HDThoreaun wrote: post #378

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It is not possible to censor the internet when VPNs are freely available. The more you try the more it backfires. By telling your kids they cant see a website they are sure to visit it, all they have to do is google for a free vpn.

>It is not possible to censor the internet when VPNs are freely available. What's stopping VPN providers from being forced to censor the internet?

Other VPN providers not being forced to censor the internet? VPN providers in the US will never have to bow to censorship as long as the first amendment is doing its thing

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

rbanffy wrote: post #642
adastra22 wrote: post #638

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Fine. That’s not what’s going on here.

It's entirely up to 4chan whether it decides to comply or not.

Their executives might be in trouble if they ever visit the UK though.

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Post by iamacyborg »

bobsmooth wrote: post #657
iamacyborg wrote: post #590

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I think you consuming too much right wing American media.

I think you're willfully ignoring how authoritarian your country is.

Last I checked I don’t think we were stopping people at the border because they said mean things about our government.

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Post by [deleted] »

6r17 wrote: post #552
aydyn wrote: post #520

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Its cute that you think Europe has the ability to replace those services.

I *personally* have a freaking orchestrator, mail server, git server, faster than rocksdb DATABASE ENGINE, freaking world of warcraft and faster than NGINX for static. It's cute that you think you have the capabilities to imagine what Europe can or cannot do.

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Post by ta8903 »

mikkupikku wrote: post #133
Hamuko wrote: post #125

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> Wouldn't this mean that the Act only applies to services explicitly design/targeting UK users/visitors? Clearly not considering that there's nothing in 4chan that would make it explicitly targeted towards the UK. Unless Ofcom is saying something and doing the opposite.

4chan does have very minor explicit support for UK users; on some boards it puts a UK flag on their post (as it does with all other countries and territories.) It could perhaps be argued that this constitutes the site being consciously designed with UK users in mind. Hardly matters though, there's nothing the UK can do about it. They aren't a superpower anymore and it's time for them to realize it.

During the Euros they replace the British flag with flags for England, Scotland and Wales on the sports board.

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Post by immibis »

iamacyborg wrote: post #683
bobsmooth wrote: post #657

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I think you're willfully ignoring how authoritarian your country is.

Last I checked I don’t think we were stopping people at the border because they said mean things about our government.

https://freespeechunion.org/french-philosopher-to-challenge-...

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Post by ryandrake »

lurk2 wrote: post #579
ryandrake wrote: post #474

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What stops people from setting up and aging (or buying) sockpuppet accounts to the point where they control 10+ or even 100+ flag-capable / vote-capable HN accounts, and then using them as a network to deny or boost certain topics? This kind of behavior almost certainly goes on here.

> What stops people from setting up and aging (or buying) sockpuppet accounts to the point where they control 10+ or even 100+ flag-capable / vote-capable HN accounts, and then using them as a network to deny or boost certain topics? It’s a single board with a full-time moderator and almost everyone on it has a background in information technology. These kinds of networks leave very obvious signatures, and the site s…

Of course, only the site admins would be able to show you actual examples. But this kind of stuff happens everywhere on the internet where you can post for free, so there is no reason to think it's not happening here.

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Post by okeuro49 »

amiga386 wrote: post #674
rbanffy wrote: post #665

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The government as it is, was elected by 100% of the vote. The party heading the Executive branch had fewer than 100% of the vote.

That is not the case. The government was elected with 33.7% of the vote. You were trying to make a distinction between "government" and "executive" -- that's not how it works here, matey. His Majesty's Government is the party in power (or whichever grouping of MPs can hold the confidence of parliament), it is not all the other MPs - they are the opposition . We don't have an "Executive". We have His Majesty's Governm…

FPTP forces coalitions to form before the vote, as otherwise they never get power.

In alternative systems, you vote and then coalitions jostle to form a majority afterwards.

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Post by aydyn »

baobabKoodaa wrote: post #515
therein wrote: post #211

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Oh no, not being able to visit UK must be the worst punishment of all. They'll live their lives without being able to see Luton. What kind of life is that.

Some of us have relatives in the UK.

Im sorry.
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