Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

4chan doesn't do anything illegal unless you think that being mean should be banned.

Well that depends on what laws are passed, doesn’t it? 4Chan is now in violation of a new UK law.

So we’re just throwing bugbears against a wall at this point I guess?

Being mean, for varying degrees of "mean", is actually illegal in most countries that aren't the USA and surely 4chan passes the threshold in at least some of them.

4chan is not in the UK and ofcom has no jurisdiction. This would be like Singapore trying to prosecute you for smoking marijuana in your own home in the U.S.

Have you ever opened 4chan? There are literally 3 threads right now with "drawn images" illegal in many countries. To me it's crazy it's still open. Early 4chan had the worst kind of images you could think of.

Yeah and I can guarantee you're in violation of laws somewhere too.

It's just as irrelevant.

…did you read the article?

Women driving or walking outside without headgear is illegal in many countries.

There are no drawn or otherwise images on 4chan that are illegal under United States law.

I find it more offensive that there are "many countries" where "drawn images" are illegal to share.

They arrest people for saying "We love bacon".

"Police drag away a man for saying he likes bacon near a sprawling mosque construction site" (https://www.wndnewscenter.org/we-like-bacon-man-arrested-for...)

Mohammed caricatures or 100 year old vampires that look like 12 year olds?

Uh, why do you think there's a "no kik/telegram sharing" sticky post on /b/ right now?

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It's worse than that.

The UK is actually criminally investigating anime artwork websites and raiding people for how lines and shapes are drawn.