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4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act (arstechnica.com)
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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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[–] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Unironically yes. Otherwise the internet as we know it is very much over, and what we have instead is a mesh of country-nets.

I mean, what is actually "doing business" when it comes a simple web page or a forum for example? Merely existing and being reachable.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, and a county could say "you can't do business in our county anymore" and block them

    A country can ban dildos, but they don't get to tell a foreign factory they can't make dildos. If an importer orders dildos anyways, that's between the importer and customs. Which in this case the importer is the ISP

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  • [–] -5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Otherwise the internet as we know it is very much over, and what we have instead is a mesh of country-nets.

    which, TBH, doesn't seem so bad to me. as an european, i'm personally sick of all the sick (as in, unwell) culture from america swapping over via the internet and poisoning people's minds.

    i mean, all the culture war is literally instigated by american capitalists to disrupt society and to disrupt the people's coherence, to make them weaker and therefore easier to exploit.

    If it wasn't for continuous exposure to american influence, europe would long have drastic left-wing political reforms, i guess.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Oh yes, because it's not like Nigel Farage, Victor Orban and a bunch of other populists didn't make use of US companies and advisors (and russian funds...) on how to best fracture societies to their end. Clearly nuking the internet would put an end to that, and all would be well.

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