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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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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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sunshine-o ◴[22 Aug 25 13:01 UTC] No.44984120[source]▶
This is the only power they have left.

The UK government has lost control of what happen in the physical world on their own island so now the bureaucrats play a fantasy game where they are gonna enforce their rules and dominion in their former colonies or the digital world.

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lokar ◴[22 Aug 25 14:47 UTC] No.44985325[source]▶
While I disapprove of what the gov is doing here, I think it’s incorrect and unhelpful to put all the blame on them. AIUI, the UK is a democracy and these policies are generally supported by the voters.
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123pie123 ◴[22 Aug 25 14:52 UTC] No.44985373[source]▶
really?

From my anecdotal evidence, is that it's fucking stupid and hated

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jdietrich ◴[22 Aug 25 15:02 UTC] No.44985489[source]▶
Weirdly, the majority of the British public a) support age verification, b) aren't willing to use age verification themselves and c) don't think it'll actually work.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/britons-back-online-safety-acts-...

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1. mattnewton ◴[22 Aug 25 16:07 UTC] No.44986264{3}[source]▶
Doesn’t seem weird at all, Britons are saying a) I agree children watching porn is bad but b) I value my privacy online and c) don’t think sending in photos of an ID is really going to stop kids. Actually seems pretty reasonable, and a reasonable democratic representative should look at that and say “well, how else can get A if method B is unpopular and unlikely to work?”

Instead they seem to have conflated B with A. Maybe they are afraid that any criticism on this method is interpreted as attack on doing anything at all for kids watching porn on the internet or even twisted into some kind of endorsement.

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2. o11c ◴[22 Aug 25 18:49 UTC] No.44988295[source]▶
> Instead they seem to have conflated B with A. Maybe they are afraid that any criticism on this method is interpreted as attack on doing anything at all for kids watching porn on the internet or even twisted into some kind of endorsement.

In all fairness, I have seen quite a few people explicitly arguing "I want kids to watch porn" of late.

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3. mattnewton ◴[22 Aug 25 19:09 UTC] No.44988568[source]▶
That’s not really being fair if you’re assuming that fringe argument by default though right?