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4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law (www.courtwatch.news)
submitted 1 week ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36419565

Lawsuit.

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[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Whether I like the UK’s act, they are free to set the laws of their land. So if foreign websites don’t want to comply, the UK is also free to order its ISPs to block the site.

Yes, and 4chan is an asshole, if you want to do business in a country you need to respect the country's laws even if your company in not in that country.

What 4chan can do (and it is the only thing) is to block people from UK. Or find a way to convince a UK court that the law is unconstitutional (or the UK equivalent) but I would not bet on this.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Yes despite my downvotes I’ll stick my neck out to agree with you.

If a US company wanted to sell liquor online in the UK, they’d have to follow U.K. laws for alcohol licensing and age-verified delivery.

I don’t know why age verification is any different. That’s the UK law (which I disagree with for what it’s worth, certainly in its current implementation) and if you want to operate in the UK (and for a website that means be accessible to U.K. audiences) you follow U.K. laws while here.