Thread 106349025

A lawyer representing the online message board 4chan says it won't pay a proposed fine by the UK's media regulator as it enforces the Online Safety Act.

According to Preston Byrne, managing partner of law firm Byrne & Storm, Ofcom has provisionally decided to impose a £20,000 fine "with daily penalties thereafter" for as long as the site fails to comply with its request.

"Ofcom's notices create no legal obligations in the United States," he told the BBC, adding he believed the regulator's investigation was part of an "illegal campaign of harassment" against US tech firms.

Ofcom has declined to comment while its investigation continues.
"4chan has broken no laws in the United States - my client will not pay any penalty," Mr Byrne said.

https://archive.ph/Jby57

>>106349025 (OP)
I thereby propose to use name "UK online stazi act"

>>106349025 (OP)
The stupid jannie just deletes these m8.
Because a foreign Government threatening to ban 4chan over a stupid tech law that has as much basis in factuality as Alice in Wonderland must somehow be 'non-tech related' and a /pol/ story, or someshit. That or some fucking halfwits keep complaining abut it.

>>106349025 (OP)
Nuke the UK

Again, I don't see how the UK can do shit about this.

>>106349154
So that's why I kept getting hash errors when trying to upload OP's image? fucking kek, how are they so threatened about this? nothing scares them that some meta talk, no matter how on-topic. They could release 4chan: The Video Game, developed by Hiro and Rapeape, and still ban discussion of it on /v/.

>>106349154
problem is those fucking government care about jurisdiction of client availability of the website, not jurisdiction of the servers

>>106349200
*scares them more

>>106349180
>Nuke the UK
The problem is not the people, it's their leaders, and your leaders and mine are exactly the same as theirs.

>>106349201
still not the server's problem

based, perhaps, but seems dumb. if you accidentally get diverted to Heathrow or some shit and you are an owner of one of these companies, your ass is going to get thoroughly raped. easier to just block UK users IMO.

>>106349191
>I don't see how the UK can do shit about this
The 4chan admins are effectively banned from Europe now

>>106350236
UK isnt in the EU retard

>>106349025 (OP)
leftist censorship is a plague
bongs are already cucked enough to take it

>>106349639
The best people in the UK sailed to America long ago. All that is left is cucks, cucks as far the eye can see. That's why bongs have been bouncing on that big, greasy socialist dick for almost a century now. Britain is mudslime shitskin territory, the jig's up.

The Brits will eventually geoblock 4chan.
4chan isn't like facebook or twitter, they aren't advertising locally so the brits don't have an avenue of attack/leverage against 4chan by going after they advertisement partnerships. They'll jump straight to geoblock.

>>106350236
Only from Bongistan

>>106349180
You got a loicense for that nuke?

>>106350285
>fly over Bongland
>plane has to land because of various reasons
>get handcuffed at the gate
I mean really. You can go to France or whatever, but you now have a new systemic risk.

>>106350586
that's not how airports work

>>106350236
Can 4chan get banned from india while we are at it?

>>106350598
are you delusional? did you forget the telegram incident or what Luka scrambled jets to force a grounding of a commercial airliner carrying a "dissident?"

>>106350601
Bharat has their own 4chan saars.

>>106349191
This. UK can't really do shit to foreign company that no longer offers any services in their shitty cuntry.
>>106350236
Europoorean here. In case you didn't know, we are not some sort of authoritarian hivemind and just because UK tries to enforce their law onto foreign companies, it doesn't mean they have the power to tell other countries to arrest 4chan staff over something like that. This is definitely different than the Durov's arrest, since 4chan is not nearly as risky platform as Telegram, and the vast majority of cuntries in Europe don't give a fuck about 4chan, unlike with Telegram.

>>106350586
>>plane has to land because of various reasons
1 in a million chance

>>106350614
4chan is not telegram retard
>>106350634
this. retarded fucking jeets, mutts and spics have no idea how europe works

>>106350636
sure, still a risk though. some tard has a heart attack midflight, have to divert to Heathrow, sorry goy. Oops uppity bk crown wearing guy? yep, diverted. plane broke? seeing the point? still not worth the risk for me and I doubt the odds are a lot less than 1 in a million given how fucked modern air travel is.

>>106350671
you don't get off the plane for medical emergencies and they just detain the person until they land at the regular airport you mong
and doesn't the nip live in fucking japan? why the fuck would he ever fly over the UK to start with

>>106350671
not xhim, but you are very detached from reality if you unironically think that UK would arrest hiro or 4chan mods over something like this.

>>106349180
This worthless rhetoric will get us nowhere, WE DIDN'T CHOOSE THIS
And don't act like your USA isn't turning into a police state itself, this is an international issue. UK, US, Australia, Canada, Europe, it's not just us, so don't act like you're better than us.

>>106350715
Gook moot lives in Franch. It is the Eastern man's Japan.

>>106352627
Hiro better watch himself
are SAS unloicensed website team can grab him from there

>>106350634
>>106350654
>Because 4chan isn't Telegram we're not an authoritarian hivemind

>>106350408
>They'll jump straight to geoblock.
and it'll be a shitty dns block like their piracy website ones are
DoH, DoT, DNSSEC and uncensored resolvers make it useless.

>>106350634
>we are not some sort of authoritarian hivemind and just because UK tries to enforce their law onto foreign companies,
Nope, but if UK gets away with this, it might give others ideas. I mean (age verification) mandatory ID check is being evaluated in EU right now

>>106352689

nooo where to look loli then

>>106350571
Is the bottom picture real? I thought Un himself would be the player.

>>106350408
this is the side of "freedom" btw, but when china does it it's bad

>>106353000
>if UK gets away with this
They probably won't though. This whole thing has been a shambles and no one aside from out of touch, centre left boomers who listen to Radio 4 support it.

>>106350408
Kiwi Farms was blocked for months but it's back now. Ofcom seethed about it but nothing has happened so far.

what's wrong with britbongs

>>106349025 (OP)
they can block 4chan in their shithole, nobody will care

>>106354204
idris not looking so good these days

>>106354204
>ninja sword
Always cracks me up.

>>106350386
>All that is left is cucks, cucks as far the eye can see.

>>106353000
And the USA too. It's a worldwide effort.
>>106350634
>Telegram
The gigantic difference is that Telegram was swarming with CP groups/channels, drug/weapon/fake ID services and the moderators did absolutely nothing about it.

After he was released they removed the Nearby feature which was being used almost exclusively by prostitutes and drug dealers, took moderation more seriously and now cooperates with the EU to remove illegal content (allegedly. Telegram is still full of illegal shit.)

What I'm saying that Telegram didn't catch the eye of regulators randomly, it was actively aiding illegal activities. 4chan isn't.

>>106354292
what not closing the door does to a mfer

>>106349025 (OP)
Do you think the Internet is really finished? Will there be no bright future with freedom like there was in the 2000s, or at least 8 years ago?

>>106355300
Doubt it. This isn't going too well for the UK govt, and worst of worst cases, we always got hidden internet projects as a nuclear option.