Thread 214061770

4chan vs the UK. Who will win?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq68j5g2nr1o

why would a lawyer talk to a BBC?

>>214061770 (OP)
4chan is a honeypot so they'll be fine.

>>214061770 (OP)
imagine being the lawyer for 4chan kek. Does he do it for free?

its just going to get blocked

>>214061770 (OP)
>europe just decides that an american website needs to pay a fine for existing one day
why are they like this? is this where 90% of europes GDP comes from or something? Is it the old colonial taxation mindset?

>>214061783
This. It’s just pageantry to ofcom can pretend they’re relevant.
There is absolutely no way in fuck that it took a month for someone to realise that the hacker known as 4chan wasn’t complying.

4chan isn't doing anything illegal in the US.

>>214061808
I'm surprised it hasn't been already.

>Then in August, it said it had issued 4chan with "a provisional notice of contravention" for failing to comply with two requests for information. Ofcom said its investigation would examine whether the message board was complying with the act, including requirements to protect its users from illegal content.
What is illegal content in the UK?
>>214061839
Pay up.

>>214061916
You now have to have age verification shit to view anything NSFW/18+ on the internet. There are pictures of boobs and dicks on here so it's illegal without age verification which 4chan refuses to do.

>>214061963
So every website in the world needs to have some UK age verification? This doesn't make any sense. This is not how the interbutts works.

>>214062084
>This is not how the interbutts works.
Tell the government that.
>So every website in the world needs to have some UK age verification
The way the world is going, every country will be enforcing age verification checks on websites. We are just the first.

>>214062147
Kys pakirapemeat, the whole world will never go this way, however shitty Jeetlandia is the one thing they don't touch is the internet, many south american countries too don't have the state power to implement such a thing, it's just you and your Anglodalit retardation seeping out and taking down the Western world with it

>>214062147
>The way the world is going
>We are just the first
this is the most european thing I've ever read

Imagine having the UK in the EU pushing this shit on us all. We dodged a cannonball.

>>214061780
That lawyer is 100% will always be a gem

>>214062340
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-porn-age-verification-texas-12a73197796fe8c4bef0d888259543cf

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/age-verification-is-coming-for-the-whole-internet.html

>>214061770 (OP)
What's the bong government gonna do once they inevitably lose this fight? Block 4chains for bongs?

>>214061839
Actually 4chan is owned by a Japanese man who lives in Paris, France.

>>214062366
https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/after-the-uk-online-age-verification-is-landing-in-the-eu

>>214062397
Yeah but it won't work. Pirate bay has been ISP blocked for years and there are proxys everywhere

>>214062475
never trust a fucking d*ne

>>214062475
>Yeah but it won't work. Pirate bay has been ISP blocked for years and there are proxys everywhere
But it will stop bongs from posting right?

>>214062562
You will never be free from the eternal anglo

>>214061770 (OP)
>briish lawyers in talks with literal black cocks
grim

>>214062628
kek looked like a guitar from the thumbnail

>>214062596
I will. The upcoming bongocaust will be the best day of my life

>>214062666
newfag

4chan never dies

>>214062366
Lol, Chat Control is most likely going to pass in October which is even worse

>>214062750
This is really old

>>214062785
you might even say that's the joke

>>214062781
I have no friends to chat with anyway.

>>214062781
How is that even going to work? What's stopping literally anyone from just using custom chat software that isn't monitored?

>>214062833
They can monitor everything by just scanning something before it is sent or encrypted

>>214061770 (OP)
Fucked up retarded loicense country

>>214062922
They'd have to have access to the software first.
If I just program a simple p2p client and use it for communication there is literally nothing they can do unless my computer is compromised.

>>214062804
nigger

>>214062949
I guess that's true, but it would make it pretty hard to keep it secret since it would be so niche

>>214061770 (OP)
Does the UK even have any authority over it? 4chan is a US based company and have no servers in the UK.

>>214063043
Nope

>>214063094
Christ. Your government is even more performative than ours.

>>214062833
Actually getting your friends to switch over to the new thing instead of continuing to use whatsapp

>>214062703
dumb ahh blud

>>214063124
Chat control is supposed to stop "criminals"
Why the hell would they use whatsapp
It's such a dumb fucking nonsense law that does nothing to combat what it's supposedly made for

>>214063043
No kek, they're just throwing shit at a wall and hoping it sticks. This will just end with 4chan getting blocked there and you'll likely have 20 different ways to easily bypass the block

>>214063219
It's about automating surveillance, they have no idea what's going on on Whatsapp

>>214063219
Criminals aren't smart. The small fry anyway

>>214063265
>they have no idea what's going on on Whatsapp
Nor should they have.
They have no idea what's going on in my bedroom either but that doesn't mean they should put up a camera there.

>>214062833
>How is that even going to work?
It won't. Normal people will get spied on and feed AIs while criminals will and have already found ways of sidestepping this. It's just an excuse to prevent people from doing wrongthinks. Big EU is always watching

pointless bureaucracy is the backbone of this country

>>214063311
But gee anon for all we know you could be building a bomb in there! Nothing to hide, nothing to fear :^)

>>214063346
england renamed airstrip one when

>>214063094
>>214063256
Here's hoping 4chan saying "lol no" will make even bigger sites not even consider bowing down.

>>214063504
4chan won’t do anything to change the opinion. Wikipedia threatened to block access to UK users over it which would cause more of an issue.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/23/wikipedia-threatens-limit-access-website-britain/

>>214063504
I don't know, the Uk isn't super small and irrelevant either so I assume most companies will go along with it unless whatever they're asking is too big of a hassle. Quite based of Wikipedia to do this I must say >>214063562

Really wish boomers would fuck off forever from politics already

>>214063758
Crazy how this whole circus is ran by dinosaurs who do not even know what a vpn is

>>214063652
I hope they do along with other big companies. The online safety act is a massive overreach on what it said it was supposed to be doing.

>>214063951
They've just learned but they don't realise that you cannot stop VPNs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo

>>214061963
Isnt that why it was split into 4chan and 4channel domains at some point?
Just keep the Brits out of the nsfw boards

>>214063960
Didn't they completely revamp the law after it was voted? That shit can't possibly be legal

>>214064251
Not sure on the specifics but it has a power creep within it where it's slowly going beyond what was originally proposed. The issue is that it's being sold to voters as stopping under 18year olds viewing porn, so it's an easy win. The reality is that it's just clamping down on anything that can be deemed 18+ eg on reddit, the cider subreddit was restricted unless you provided ID to prove you were 18 or over. What is funny is that the government are letting 16 year olds vote now so you can vote at 16, join the army at 16, have sex at 16 but you cannot watch porn unless you're 18.

>>214064328
>What is funny is that the government are letting 16 year olds vote now
What an horrible fucking idea

>>214061770 (OP)
4chan is 100% getting an ISP block, going to have to be a paypig for hiro and use a vpn
He needs to do a lifetime 4chan pass, a fucking 4chan subscription is too much

>>214064476
Free 4chan pass to every brit who provides their id :)

>>214063980
>On Dame Rachel's VPN comments, the spokesperson said there are no plans to ban them "but if platforms deliberately push workarounds like VPNs to children, they face tough enforcement and heavy fines."
Made me laugh. These people are living in their own fantasy.

>A lawyer for 4chan has announced that the notorious image board will not pay fines imposed by the UK media regulator. He told the BBC, explaining that notices from Ofcom "do not create any legal obligations in the United States". He also called the regulator's investigation part of an "illegal harassment campaign" against US tech companies.

>On the short messaging service X, the service's (4chan) law firm has now declared that US companies do not give up their rights guaranteed by the US Constitution simply because a "foreign bureaucrat sends them an email". They will fight any attempts to punish 4chan in a US federal court.

>>214064476
they'll never do a lifetime pass because 4chan gets very little new blood, its all the same sad people from 10-15 years ago still here

>>214064476
Just get an Irish or French sim card like the ones that are sold for tourists and you need neither a VPN or a pass and you can also access everything else you want.
Although this solution will stop working in about one year when EU implements the great firewall to protect the children.

>>214064670
You only have to change your DNS server. In Firefox you can choose one in the settings. They are blocking it on the ISP DNS servers.

>>214062703
it did not look like a guitar from the thumbnail

>>214064744
should really just be setting a different dns resolver at the system level these days anyway

>>214064744
Is that right? So it's a nothingburger. Australia did that to block 4chan for a little while, everybody changed their dns and kept posting

>>214065062
Same with rt.com and piratebay in the EU. Just don't use your isp dns server and the fun continues.

>>214061770 (OP)
At most the UK government would probably block access
Our government would ironically probably step in (not for 4chan specifically but if it starts affecting actual meaningful companies) because European countries controlling American businesses is a major no-no

>>214067306
The US government has already pushed back on the UK and stopped us from request from accessing data from Apple. Of course you'll still be spied upon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdj2m3rrk74o

typical boomer arrogance to demand a foreign website to follow the laws of their shithole country