4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

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.

This is the only power they have left.

The UK government has lost control of what happen in the physical world on their own island so now the bureaucrats play a fantasy game where they are gonna enforce their rules and dominion in their former colonies or the digital world.

While I disapprove of what the gov is doing here, I think it’s incorrect and unhelpful to put all the blame on them. AIUI, the UK is a democracy and these policies are generally supported by the voters.

> generally supported by the voters

you could say the same about the US... that doesn't make it right and it doesn't mean people aren't violently voting against their own best interests.

It's a huge stretch to call the existence of 4chan in anyone's best interests.

First they came for 4chan and I said nothing, because good riddance!

This is not a slippery slope; this is a spring trying to return to the center. The harder the resistance at the extremes, the more energetic the oscillation will be, so if we want to minimize that, work on undermining the intolerable extremes.

The sheer anarchy of the libertarian mindset that much of this site supports is not a good thing.