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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: 0.001s | 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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dlachausse ◴[22 Aug 25 17:19 UTC] No.44987135[source]▶
Just give up a few more rights…for everyone’s safety. Think of the children!
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1. transcriptase ◴[22 Aug 25 18:17 UTC] No.44987820[source]▶
“just one more law bro. i promise bro just one more law and we’ll be safe bro. it’s just a little more surveillance bro. please just one more. one more law and we’ll stop all the threats bro. bro c’mon just give me access to your data and we’ll protect you i promise bro. think of the children bro. bro bro please we just need one more law bro, one more camera, one more database, and then we’ll all be safe bro”
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2. ethbr1 ◴[22 Aug 25 21:45 UTC] No.44990228[source]▶
sed 's/bro/mate/g'
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3. akk0 ◴[23 Aug 25 06:06 UTC] No.44993632[source]▶
That sounds more Australian, which still works but is a different story. I propose s/mate/chum/g