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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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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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postexitus ◴[22 Aug 25 12:35 UTC] No.44983797[source]▶
For you - not for 99% of the public.
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username332211 ◴[22 Aug 25 12:45 UTC] No.44983921[source]▶
Ehh, if a youth of digital piracy has taught me anything, it's that people will develop the necessary computer literacy to get the entertainment they want. Even if they've completely failed to develop that same skill in the pursuit of self improvement.

I feel that says something about human psychology. Probably something very unpleasant.

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1. anonym29 ◴[22 Aug 25 15:02 UTC] No.44985493[source]▶
Human adaptivity is perhaps both our biggest strength and biggest weakness. It's the same force behind our greatest innovations and our greatest tragedies, and even fuels the apathetic indifference towards those tragedies, too.