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

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411 points donpott | 3 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4chan got hacked a while back because they were running a totally outdated software stack.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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lm28469 ◴[22 Aug 25 14:34 UTC] No.44985180[source]▶
You can ban 75% of the web if your concern is outdated tech stacks and/or data breaches
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1. Gud ◴[22 Aug 25 14:59 UTC] No.44985450[source]▶
75%? Are you being generous because it's weekend?
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2. sejje ◴[22 Aug 25 16:24 UTC] No.44986469[source]▶
Agreed--if the concern is data breaches, we can just ban 100% of databases, even those offline.

If it's outdated tech stacks, I'm sometimes in favor of those. Move fast and break things isn't always the best.

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3. Tade0 ◴[22 Aug 25 16:52 UTC] No.44986802[source]▶
That's not an outdated stack - just a stable one.

An outdated stack is a not-up-to-date version of Wordpress I foolishly set up because it was the last one compatible with a certain plugin used by a client on their website that I was recreating from the Wayback Machine.

The domain was put on a black list of dangerous sites (rightfully so, considering that the bot that hacked into it replaced the site with spam).