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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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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF ◴[22 Aug 25 12:50 UTC] No.44983979[source]▶
https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

The iOS instructions are the most onerous (IMO) but still easy enough to follow. It's 15 minutes of fumbling around for the non-technical person, then they're protected.

(Though, as others have pointed out, this is probably moot. The blocking is more effectively done by ISPs.)

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ramesh31 ◴[22 Aug 25 14:54 UTC] No.44985392[source]▶
>It's 15 minutes of fumbling around for the non-technical person, then they're protected.

You and I have very different ideas of what "non-technical" means. If it involves anything beyond pressing "download" on the app store, it's out of reach of the vast majority of users.

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1. lcnPylGDnU4H9OF ◴[22 Aug 25 15:40 UTC] No.44985925[source]▶
Fair enough, there's a wide variance there. I'd still hesitate to say it's out of reach for most people as they'll likely have someone they know who would be able to follow those instructions for them. For the purpose of being able to access something they used to be able to access, I think most people will be able to figure this out. The point is that it's one-and-done in most instances. (To that end there's a reasonable worry that OS updates reset these settings but that's kind of a separate problem.)