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

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411 points donpott | 7 comments | 22 Aug 25 10:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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Fanofilm ◴[22 Aug 25 14:29 UTC] No.44985133[source]▶
Step 6: The facebook / Instragram / X equivalents then lose their ad revenue. They then may capitulate to keep the ad revenue.

See BlueSky just rolled out Terms ToS that the automated UN Safety (censorship) laws they will accept. This is an automated pipeline for the "censorship demand data notice" can be applied in an automated why. It is plumbing for automating censorship. See "DSA" part of those laws and how BlueSky's ToS is responding.

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1. shkkmo ◴[22 Aug 25 15:11 UTC] No.44985590[source]▶
> See BlueSky just rolled out Terms ToS that the automated UN Safety (censorship) laws they will accept. This is an automated pipeline for the "censorship demand data notice" can be applied in an automated why.

I feel like you are missing some words or have some typos because this isn't comprehensible English.

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2. betaby ◴[22 Aug 25 19:17 UTC] No.44988687[source]▶
It's an understandable English even for non-native speaker like me. You are probably not very exposed to non-native speakers.
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3. jawilson2 ◴[22 Aug 25 20:54 UTC] No.44989677[source]▶
English speaker for approximately 43 of my 44+ years on this planet. I have almost no idea what this sentence is trying to convey.
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4. machomaster ◴[22 Aug 25 21:59 UTC] No.44990370[source]▶
I am non-native speaker and I confirm that the post was gibberish.
5. teaearlgraycold ◴[23 Aug 25 00:30 UTC] No.44991711{3}[source]▶
Damn what’s up with that gap? You’re falling behind.
6. shkkmo ◴[23 Aug 25 00:58 UTC] No.44991879[source]▶
I've spent years living abroad and have had many long discussions and friendships with non-native english speakers.

This could be a non-native speaker, but the complexity of the attempted sentence structure leads me to think it is a native or fluent speaker who made some mistakes (I make those kinds of mistakes all the time.)

7. j_timberlake ◴[23 Aug 25 02:33 UTC] No.44992534[source]▶
"You are probably not very exposed to non-native speakers."

If native speakers have to talk to people of other languages to understand it, then it's not even English at that point. What it is, who knows.