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If 4chan continues to ignore Ofcom, the forum could be blocked in the UK. And 4chan could face even bigger fines totaling about $23 million or 10 percent of 4chan’s worldwide turnover, whichever is higher. 4chan also faces potential arrest and/or "imprisonment for a term of up to two years," the lawsuit said.

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[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Offcom has been drinking, came home in a blackout and committed domestic abuse of 4chan. Does Offcom even internet? Alternative plot twist, Offcom is trolling 4chan.

I wanna say that Offcom is doing a good job and trying to protect British people in good faith but I feel like they are being used as a cudgel by the British ruling class to advance an anachronistic agenda. Don't forget, they fired their expert drugs advisor for telling them that MDMA is comparable to horse riding in terms of safety. They want certain things to be true, regardless of the scientific accuracy.

[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Non-British here. There’s a telecom company that called itself “OFFcom”?

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

It's ofcom but my phone desperately wants it to be Offcom for some reason

[–] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's Ofcom, the Office of Communications. Not sure how they managed to get it wrong 4 times.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago

4chan can be the first website blocked by the great firewalls of British cooking. potatoes and boiled cocks. not bad if im honest

[–] Balldowern@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 days ago

Should Ofcom be labelled as a terrorist organisation ?

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

they don't have that kind of money they can't pay that shit are you nuts

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago

Probably why they didn't do it in the first place.

They barely pay for moderation. Who is going to pay for that survey? And also why would they? Obviously most of the people on that site are under 18. That's when I used it.

What other demographic clicks the horny ads they run?

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 189 points 1 week ago (58 children)

The UK should just block sites that don't comply. They have no business trying to fine US websites.

[–] richardwallass@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 week ago

People should fight for their rights and free speech and make pressure on the gouvernement. Blocking is isolationism.

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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 162 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Imagine running a website for 20 years, changing absolutely nothing, and one day you're being targeted because someone else on the other side of the planet changed something at their end.

Tell them to piss off.

They'll come after your phpbb instance next.

[–] CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

“Block us then. We’re not paying your fines and you’ll never arrest us as we’ll never step foot in your country. Get fucked.” That’s about the response I’d have I think… attached with a photo of tubgirl or something for the classic lawls.

[–] anarchyrabbit@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ok I wish I did not search for tubgirl now

[–] spiffpitt@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

i will learn from your mistake

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 124 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (23 children)

This is a case of stupid laws that still don't understand the internet (35+ years in to wide use, mofos)

If an http GET request initiated from country A traverses routers and wires around the globe to grab some data from a server in country B, then we have to accept that the owners of the server are not "operating in country A" and in fact the user in country A is responsible for import.

If some laws in country A have a problem with this, then they should unplug their internet wires at the border, or at least learn how to use them and/or govern their citizens.

All that is tongue in cheek to say they can fuck right off.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Yeah it's a stupid law and they were told it wouldn't work by industry experts. But the politicians that were in power when all this was first been decided were Conservatives and therefore arrogant and of the opinion that if they don't like something, it's realities responsibility to reconfigure itself.

Then Labour got in and for some reason implemented the stupid law anyway despite having heard none of the consultations, and of course now it turns out that the consultations told them not to do it. Now I'm sure the industry experts would have been ignored anyway but Labour look really daft now.

They have basically accepted that this law is unworkable and is basically going to be ignored by everyone, but they still have to go through all of the pantomime of trying to enforce it. I'm sure eventually they'll quietly kill it because the whole thing has been such an embarrassment for them.

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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 114 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

British government fines an American company, based in America, for serving data from American servers that was compliant with American law.

This whole law is complete overreach. It's like banning a book and then getting mad at the author when one of your citizens buys one on holiday and brings it back with them

[–] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago

Neocons were never that bright.

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[–] nevemsenki@lemmy.world 112 points 1 week ago (21 children)

If you're ok with this then imagine your local lemmy instance getting fined by China/Qatar/Thailand/etc for posting something breaking their laws.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 90 points 1 week ago (2 children)

4chan also faces potential arrest and/or “imprisonment for a term of up to two years,” the lawsuit said.

You don't want to be locked in a small cell with 4chan for two years.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago

"I'm not stuck here with you. You're stuck here with me!"

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[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 76 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They'll never control the hacker known as 4chan

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

4chan also faces potential arrest and/or "imprisonment for a term of up to two years," the lawsuit said.

I wanna see how a website would be sent to jail.

[–] biggeoff@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Clearly they're after the notorious hacker known as 4chan

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[–] nuxi@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago

4chan's actual legal response to this can be summarized as "We are incorporated in Delaware which has not been subject to UK law since 1783. See the Treaty of Paris".

[–] Antagnostic@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Gemini24601@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Is it even possible for Ofcom to legally fine 4chan for these issues? How does a company in the UK fine a US company?

[–] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

It isn't really an US company for say. It just conveniently claims itself an US company. The servers probably are not in the US

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This censorship shit is out of control.

Damn fucking straight. I hope it starts an privacy movement so big they realize that all the laws passed since 2000 against terrorism were abject failures and repeal all of them.

Canada is trying to pass major surveillance shit on par with the patriot act on steroids and effectively nullify the need for warrants, all in the name of 'strong borders' and anti terrorism even though it literally gives many US owned and operated companies full and complete access to digital information on Canadians, ironically weakening borders in every way.

And for what? What is the terrorism threat? Al-Qaeda was a always a joke, and the fact that 9/11 happened was far more due to a monumental failure of all intelligence services combined and not due to a lack of resources. Terrorist schemes have been thwarted in the past without the need for extensive surveillance... and most plots are still thwarted primarily by informants and insiders speaking to authorities. The whole 'we need to be super proactive ' has yielded shit results.

Most of the stuff that they claim was 'prevented proactively ' was literally entrapment. They found some mentally ill and/or lonely people who would have done nothing on their own, but ended up being goaded into stupid crap when undercover agents flirted with them, encouraged them, and even offered weapons and explosives for them to use, and if they agreed... well, that's when they nabbed them. No terrorism would have occurred if agents didn't do shit.

Have you ever wondered why so many people are highly distrustful of people talking about doing violent shit? Fed posting? Its because agents have such a long ass history of doing that that you cannot tell who is and who isn't a Fed.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

4chan is likely using this to take it to the courts.

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