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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: 0.205s | 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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M95D ◴[22 Aug 25 15:50 UTC] No.44986058[source]▶
We need a DNS server with a history database, not just a cache, preferably with a distributed history database.

Visit a website and it was blocked by the "official" DNS? Declare the IP invalid in the webUI (or the browser plugin) of the local DNS and it will get you the previous IP from the database.

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1. numpad0 ◴[22 Aug 25 18:57 UTC] No.44988404[source]▶
Domain Name System was an app on the Internet. It wasn't something that always existed. The purpose of it is to provide intuitive means to look up IP address from more intuitive domain name strings.

If you could come up with an alternative system to derive the IP address of desired remote host, or content, e.g. Magnet Link standard, you can just skip DNS and switch to that instead.

TLS can be a problem as a lot of moving parts of WWW now depends on DNS. But all of those can be solved.