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411 points donpott | 1 comments | 22 Aug 25 10:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.27s | source
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net01 ◴[22 Aug 25 10:33 UTC] No.44982851[source]▶
Ofcom can fine 4chan all it wants, but without UK assets those penalties are unenforceable, they have no power here.

This is why the US dropped tea into Boston to have it's own Freedom.

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blibble ◴[22 Aug 25 10:50 UTC] No.44982943[source]▶
> This is why the US dropped tea into Boston to have it's own Freedom.

the 3% tariff on Chinese tea was seen as oppressive

don't look at what has been imposed this year (without congressional approval)

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Amezarak ◴[22 Aug 25 12:09 UTC] No.44983538[source]▶
The precipitating event behind the Boston Tea Party was actually a reduction in taxation that made it possible for the East India Company to undercut both official colonial tea importers and also American tea smugglers.
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lesuorac ◴[22 Aug 25 14:40 UTC] No.44985242[source]▶
And many of those tea importers/smugglers happened to be prominent figures in the future US government.

A coup was just good business.

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potato3732842 ◴[22 Aug 25 15:12 UTC] No.44985605[source]▶
It was terrible business. They'd have all been way better off working with the dominant global and economic power than starting a new country. And that's before you average in all the ones who lost everything and/or died.
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1. tomjakubowski ◴[22 Aug 25 19:08 UTC] No.44988564[source]▶
"We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had the King. We had a tea port. We had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork. You could've shut your mouth, smuggled tea and made as much money as you ever needed. It was perfect. But, no, you just had to blow it up. You and your pride and your ego! You just had to be the man. If you'd done your job, known your place, we'd all be fine right now."