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

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411 points donpott | 9 comments | 22 Aug 25 10:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.229s | source | bottom
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nickdothutton ◴[22 Aug 25 12:15 UTC] No.44983582[source]▶
Step 1, pass law.

Step 2, demand compliance.

Step 3, upon not hearing of compliance, levy fines.

Step 4, upon non payment of fines, declare in breach of (2).

Step 5, block site from UK using DNS, in the same manner as torrent sites etc.

5 was always the goal, 2 to 4 are largely just performative.

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username332211 ◴[22 Aug 25 12:34 UTC] No.44983781[source]▶
How does step 5 work? Switching DNS servers is trivial.
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CommanderData ◴[22 Aug 25 14:22 UTC] No.44985060[source]▶
step 6: Block non-compliant DNS servers
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1. kps ◴[22 Aug 25 14:46 UTC] No.44985314[source]▶
Step 7: Camera AI that can catch the people scribbling “Sci-Hub is 190.115.31.218” on a bathroom wall.
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2. NoMoreNicksLeft ◴[22 Aug 25 14:54 UTC] No.44985390[source]▶
Does that even work anymore? I thought plain IP addresses were a thing of the past ever since we started doing virtual hosts 25 years ago. I just get a 503 when I use the address you posted...
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3. thedrexster ◴[22 Aug 25 14:59 UTC] No.44985451[source]▶
Put it in your hosts file ;)
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4. CWuestefeld ◴[22 Aug 25 15:15 UTC] No.44985649[source]▶
If you just point your browser to https://<ip_address> then it won't work. You also need to have the correct hostname in the http request headers.

The easiest way to accomplish this is to add the address into your .hosts file (as sibling post says) and just use the name.

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6. oneshtein ◴[22 Aug 25 15:54 UTC] No.44986095{3}[source]▶
What domain name we need to put into hosts file?
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7. CommanderData ◴[22 Aug 25 16:27 UTC] No.44986510{3}[source]▶
As well as SNI, most reverse proxies need to know which TLS cert to serve. Lower than layer 7.
8. DaSHacka ◴[22 Aug 25 16:46 UTC] No.44986722{4}[source]▶
Whatever is included on the bathroom wall

"scihub.invalid 192.168.19.17"

Literally DNS-over-sneakernet

9. bcrosby95 ◴[22 Aug 25 17:08 UTC] No.44987017[source]▶
There's literally no perfect law in the world. So I'm not exactly sure what your point is.