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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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jmclnx ◴[22 Aug 25 11:30 UTC] No.44983209[source]▶
>If Ofcom doesn't think this will be enough to prevent significant harm, it can even ask that ISPs be ordered to block UK access.

Well again I guess the UK never heard of VPNs, but they are trying to ban them still, it is like these pols have no clue how the internet works. They never learn these actions are like playing wack-a-mole.

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jeroenhd ◴[22 Aug 25 12:04 UTC] No.44983487[source]▶
VPNs are next: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo
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sunrunner ◴[22 Aug 25 12:45 UTC] No.44983915[source]▶
I’m curious about what the plan is to differentiate between legitimate business use and personal use of any kind. Age verification obviously won’t work for self-hosted, so does age verification then get pushed to VPS providers? And at that point, so what? I’m already paying with legitimate bank details for legitimate personal use.
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GeoAtreides ◴[22 Aug 25 13:16 UTC] No.44984292[source]▶
do you think the public at large knows what VPS are? How to set up a VPN? the public at large barely understands the concept of files nowadays, if it's not app they're lost

banning selling VPN and VPN apps will solve 90% of the problem and that's enough

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1. jjani ◴[23 Aug 25 09:22 UTC] No.44994594{4}[source]▶
The public at large has no idea what IPTV was or how to set it up. Now Barry down the street is watching his footy through it all weekend cause his mate knows someone selling a box for 20 quid, and Barry does know how to plug in a USB cable.

The public doesn't need to know how it works behind the scenes to use it. It just needs to be packaged in a way so that they don't need to know. Which it will.