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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: 0.213s | source
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nickslaughter02 ◴[22 Aug 25 10:30 UTC] No.44982831[source]▶
> Two days later, US Federal Trade Commission chairman Andrew Ferguson warned big tech firms they could be violating US law if they weakened privacy and data security requirements by complying with international laws such as the Online Safety Act.

How will this work with chat control?

> "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."

If you want to enforce stupid laws the burden should be upon you.

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net01 ◴[22 Aug 25 10:41 UTC] No.44982897[source]▶
> How will this work with chat control? There is no POC for a chat control E2E-compliant chat app and there will never be. this will just kill EU made software because they will be forced to comply, while US software will use real E2E as marketing.
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1. Vespasian ◴[23 Aug 25 09:47 UTC] No.44994702[source]▶
As others gave said the UK left the EU 10 years ago.

Chat control (which isn't (yet) a thing) would not in fact lead to the outcome you describe.

Any company would be forced to comply or get the boot from EU market. Apple and Google will happily enforce that and that's probably good enough initially.

US Vendors could also decide to create an EU only version of their services.