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    4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

    (www.bbc.co.uk)
    411 points donpott | 11 comments | 22 Aug 25 10:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
    1. macinjosh ◴[22 Aug 25 12:13 UTC] No.44983563[source]▶
    Ofcom's only card now is to have UK ISPs block 4chan. When that happens will Starlink comply? maybe. what if they block X? could get messy fast.
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    2. perihelions ◴[22 Aug 25 12:20 UTC] No.44983618[source]▶
    I'd be totally un-shocked if the UK criminalized Starlink (over OSA or otherwise), in part because they've already criminalized it before, in some of their territories[0,1].

    [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979869 ("Starlink in the Falkland Islands – A national emergency situation? (openfalklands.com)"—225 comments)

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37645945 ("Saint Helena Island Communications (sainthelenaisland.info)"—145 comments)

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    3. net01 ◴[22 Aug 25 12:21 UTC] No.44983632[source]▶
    Imagine if some tech like DNS over UHF radio What could the UK do?
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    4. aleph_minus_one ◴[22 Aug 25 12:24 UTC] No.44983661[source]▶
    > Imagine if some tech like DNS over UHF radio What could the UK do?

    Criminalize this usage of UHF radio.

    5. justlikereddit ◴[22 Aug 25 12:37 UTC] No.44983825[source]▶
    They'll just maintain course on their mission to make everything illegal no matter the technical details.

    Starting with whatever allows criticism of their parody of a farce of so called leadership.

    6. crtasm ◴[22 Aug 25 12:53 UTC] No.44984020[source]▶
    Not the only card according to the article

    >"Ofcom can instead ask a court to order other services to disrupt a provider's UK business, such as requiring a service's removal from search results or blocking of UK payments.

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    7. f33d5173 ◴[22 Aug 25 15:01 UTC] No.44985483[source]▶
    >or blocking of uk payments

    Lol

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    8. crtasm ◴[22 Aug 25 15:22 UTC] No.44985728{3}[source]▶
    Do we think anyone in the UK is paying to advertise to the UK demographic noted on https://www.4chan.org/advertise ?
    9. lupusreal ◴[22 Aug 25 15:55 UTC] No.44986106[source]▶
    Starlink complies with this sort of stuff in the general case. The only reason they wouldn't in this specific case is if Musk decides to stir up some shit, which to be fair is totally possible.
    10. incone123 ◴[22 Aug 25 16:29 UTC] No.44986526[source]▶
    That barely got covered in the UK news, but if wealthy rural people (who don't have good wired or cellular internet) get told their Starlink is getting banned it will be much more newsworthy.
    11. subscribed ◴[22 Aug 25 20:13 UTC] No.44989257[source]▶
    UHF? With LOS range? How useful is that?