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

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411 points donpott | 1 comments | 22 Aug 25 10:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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fruitworks ◴[22 Aug 25 12:44 UTC] No.44983902[source]▶
I wouldn't be so sure it's an ideological stand.

4chan got hacked a while back because they were running a totally outdated software stack. It's been pretty much abandoned by its owner hiromoot.

If they aren't going to update the site for basic maintainance, they definitely aren't going to implement all this chat control/ age verification bullcrap.

I suppose a resistance to change is good when your competitors are burying their own graves.

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1. zahlman ◴[22 Aug 25 14:56 UTC] No.44985410[source]▶
> I wouldn't be so sure it's an ideological stand.... they definitely aren't going to implement all this chat control/ age verification bullcrap.

I read this as a plain contradiction.

> they were running a totally outdated software stack.

And this as a convenient pretense.