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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: 0.002s | 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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sunshine-o ◴[22 Aug 25 16:14 UTC] No.44986352[source]▶
I understand the people might wanna block porn on their kids mobile internet and home WiFi.

So why don't they mandate their ISP to implement this as an optional feature ?

Why do they instead try to boil the ocean by going after every website on the planet and outside of their jurisdiction?

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1. spooky_deep ◴[22 Aug 25 18:21 UTC] No.44987879[source]▶
The ISPs already do this. Most mobile networks are even opt-out, not in, to this feature. The new law is unnecessary overreach. They either don’t know what they are doing technically (alarming) or are just authoritarian (very alarming)
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2. prmoustache ◴[22 Aug 25 21:47 UTC] No.44990258[source]▶
I don't think ISP DNS solution is very effective when all major web browsers implement DoH by default.