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

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411 points donpott | 2 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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jonplackett ◴[22 Aug 25 16:28 UTC] No.44986519[source]▶
This is part of a wider trend of trying to solve real world problems with the stroke of a pen. It’s not going well.
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1. behringer ◴[22 Aug 25 16:56 UTC] No.44986861[source]▶
4chan and websites like it have never been the problem.
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2. immibis ◴[24 Aug 25 01:21 UTC] No.45000465[source]▶
4chan is a major part of the reason why the guy who's currently destroying the USA has the power to currently destroy the USA. That's not nothing. That's very far from nothing.