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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 jjtwixman »

wdutch wrote: post #415
dgroshev wrote: post #390

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We need to recognise the difference between the GP rant and what you're describing. The austerity is undeniably still reverberating through the country. It will take years for this ship to turn around, although it is being turned around. For example, in just about a month we're getting European-style rents with the Renter's Rights Act, which is transformational. We can and should do better, and everyone can contribut…

The UK is still a respected "brand" in most of the world despite what chronically online people say. British education is the most sought-after in many countries for example.

It's important to realise that the US is full of fascists obsessed with the perceived decline of Europe. They love to shit on Europe. I think it's about distracting themselves from the abject moral, political and economic failure of voting for Trump twice.

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Post by lukan »

kunley wrote: post #671
heavyset_go wrote: post #601

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> People really should turn to medical professionals and not internet strangers for help. For your own safety, you are to only discuss your health with NHS certified healthcare providers and no one else. Doing so with others can lead to unprovoked, unsanctioned and dangerous anecdotes, advice and memes. Worse, you might find community and make friends with people who have similar life experiences, which can distract…

Your sarcasm sounds like we'd be living in some extreme 1984-like dystopia, while the reality is: there is more bullshit one can read online than a bullshit one can get from a poor doctor/therapist. From my experience, the best one can do is to get a good and affordable therapist by a word of mouth.. and sometimes one can get lucky as such person is doing also service for a state, for free. Main point is to actively…

Main point with depressed people is, they often do lack initiative and enthusiasm to go find that unicorn therapists. When you are struggeling already in general and then you have to struggle even more to maybe find help (and then you don't know whether you can afford it) .. no wonder people turn to online help and LLM'S.

So yes, you are right in that activly start searching is the better way. But that insight is often lost on the target audience.

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

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Post by gib444 »

oytis wrote: post #651
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

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.

I understand there is context in this thread. I also understand that statements like "The UK is no longer part of Europe" are frequently used with political motivations, to sow division.

Also, being geographically close, and only recently an ex-EU member, and with strong alignment on defence/Ukraine, it is not like we are wholly separate and unaligned. We retained some EU law, such as GDPR and EU261 (copy-pasted into a law referred to as 'UK261'). Yes, I understand the UK not being a member state means that EU laws wouldn't automatically apply – but the world is more complex than that.

The Labour party shares a lot in common with many parts of the EU and EU governments when it comes to control, privacy etc.

The UK has been re-aligning with the EU and the rest of Europe for a little while now, repairing relationships, for obvious reasons.

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Post by CodesInChaos »

Rebuff5007 wrote: post #668
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?

That they don't consider it sufficient for the website to block all UK IP addresses.

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Post by Hikikomori »

21asdffdsa12 wrote: post #650
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…

Iran would be attacked even with nukes. If you promise relentless war- and nuclear attacks via proxxies - you basically show that game-theory does not apply to you. Religion explicitly states that MAD does not apply to them too. And they life by that. So Iran with nukes, would be nuked 1 day after. No matter the cost. Its similar to the a medieval pope having nukes, and everyone else being heretic witches. You just p…

This US regime isn't any different than the ayatollah, they also want christian sharia laws and to oppress women.

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

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Post by Hikikomori »

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.

IF he had played ball with the US they would have left him in charge no matter what he did to the population.

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Post by jacquesm »

swiftcoder wrote: post #646
jacquesm wrote: post #430

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Not having the UK in the EU makes English a better choice, not a worse one. It was one of those things where the UK had a 'home court advantage'. This is one of the strangest fringe benefits and of course there were some countries that tried to jockey for position but fortunately that didn't go anywhere.

And hey, now that the UK exited stage right, Ireland gets to be the de-facto owner of the English language in the EU :D

The benefits keep stacking up!

Joking aside, that was one of the worst own goals in history.

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Post by w4der »

Aurornis wrote: post #550
toofy wrote: post #438

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> It seems like NGOs and IGOs have been pushing for internet restrictions for a long time. There has suddenly been a push for age restrictions allegedly because of abuse material. This happens annually. we’re seeing some good evidence the most recent pushes were secretly funded and directly written by meta, the corporation. [0][1] according to the link in there, > Rep. Kim Carver (R-Bossier City), the sponsor of Loui…

> and they’ve put as much as 2 billion dollars into it. and yes, that’s billion, with a B. The original report that cited the $2 billion number was AI generated slop. The $2 billion number wasn't from Meta, it was from Arabella Advisors. The AI-generated report showed only about $20-30 million in lobbying efforts per year across all lobbying. Even the Show HN post was full of AI slop, claiming things like "months of…

> only about $20-30 million

That is still an absurd amount of money

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