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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: 0s | source
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fruitworks ◴[22 Aug 25 12:44 UTC] No.44983902[source]▶
I wouldn't be so sure it's an ideological stand.

4chan got hacked a while back because they were running a totally outdated software stack. It's been pretty much abandoned by its owner hiromoot.

If they aren't going to update the site for basic maintainance, they definitely aren't going to implement all this chat control/ age verification bullcrap.

I suppose a resistance to change is good when your competitors are burying their own graves.

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oceansky ◴[22 Aug 25 15:34 UTC] No.44985861[source]▶
I laughed at hiromoot. Very clever nickname
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sillysaurusx ◴[22 Aug 25 15:58 UTC] No.44986135[source]▶
I know moot, but what’s the hiro part mean?
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Hamuko ◴[22 Aug 25 17:35 UTC] No.44987311{3}[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Nishimura

>Users on 4chan refer to him commonly as 'hiro' but also by the ethnic slur "gook moot", or the nickname "Jackie 4chan", "Hiroshima Nagasaki," or simply "hiroshimoot".

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1. soraminazuki ◴[23 Aug 25 00:42 UTC] No.44991780{4}[source]▶
That's kind of misleading because it lists hiroshimoot alongside blatantly racist nicknames. But hiroshimoot simply appears to be the names of two people mixed together.