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Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users

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Re: Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users

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Post by aredox »

the_third_wave wrote: post #60
aredox wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Could you give some examples which refer to the activities you accuse him of? Examples of actual violations of the Constitution of the United States, that is, not just examples of him deciding things you happen to disagree with.

Easy: the hundreds of millions of dollars he has extorted from universities, media companies and law firms for "saying things he happens to disagree with".

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/30/trump-harvard-settlement-de...

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/12/big-law-pro-bono-legal-work...

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/18/trump-jobs-report-dc-crime-...

https://www.ibanet.org/Trumps-assault-on-the-First-Amendment

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/us-free-spee...

Why did Mahmoud Khalil spend 3 months in prison for and missed the birth of his child, again? And Rümeysa Öztürk?

Re: Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users

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Post by ivan_gammel »

jacquesm wrote: post #90
ivan_gammel wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As if any government would ever take any advice from HN... :) No, seriously, what's your point? That for a G7 government interfering with interests of American companies outside of US jurisdiction it is somehow a problem?

Yes, it is 'somehow a problem'. Just like the reverse is 'somehow a problem'. Effectively advising a large audience that they can ignore the law whereas there are plenty of examples of why you probably shouldn't be ignoring the law is a pretty silly thing to do. https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/stlouis/press-releases/200... Is one of my favorite examples to point to but there are countless others besides.

> Effectively advising a large audience that they can ignore the law

Who did that?

Edit: I agree with you, just don’t understand why did you choose to reply to that part of my comment.

Re: Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users

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Post by red-iron-pine »

horseradish7k wrote: post #89
Ferret7446 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

4chan will laugh and UK users will VPN to access 4chan and nothing of value will have been provided by this laughingstock of regulation.

except 4chan disallows posting from vpns, which is probably why they didn't self censor already

yeah they been blocking VPNs for a long time.

Re: Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users

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Post by red-iron-pine »

Symbiote wrote: post #77
ranger_danger wrote: post #55

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you can if you buy a 4chan pass with crypto

That will make blocking it fairly effective, at least if 4chan's demographic is as I remember it to be (teenagers etc).

they were teenagers in 2018. now they're 30-somethings with enough disposable income and basic technical skills to download a PIA or NordVPN app to their phone.

Re: Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users

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Post by Ferret7446 »

horseradish7k wrote: post #89
Ferret7446 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

4chan will laugh and UK users will VPN to access 4chan and nothing of value will have been provided by this laughingstock of regulation.

except 4chan disallows posting from vpns, which is probably why they didn't self censor already

Most users lurk, not post (as for all social media).

Using a pass allows posting from VPN (and posting without a pass is really annoying last I checked, as the anti-spam measure are quite insistent).

So if you were posting previously (with a pass) then nothing has changed.

Re: Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users

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Post by aredox »

aredox wrote: post #91
the_third_wave wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you give some examples which refer to the activities you accuse him of? Examples of actual violations of the Constitution of the United States, that is, not just examples of him deciding things you happen to disagree with.

Easy: the hundreds of millions of dollars he has extorted from universities, media companies and law firms for "saying things he happens to disagree with". https://www.axios.com/2025/07/30/trump-harvard-settlement-de... https://www.axios.com/2025/04/12/big-law-pro-bono-legal-work... https://www.axios.com/2025/08/18/trump-jobs-report-dc-crime-... https://www.ibanet.org/Trumps-assault-on-the-First-Amendment https://www…

I get downvoted when in the last 24 hours, he has signed an executive order to go after people who burn the American flag and has threatened to revoke the licence of ABC and NBC. Imagine just for a second the reaction of Clinton or Obama did that, on top of having a loyalty list of companies and sending the FBI after your critics...

There is clearly a cabal of MAGA supporters trying to game this website to suppress anything that make Trump look bad.

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