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

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361 points gloxkiqcza | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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Apreche ◴[24 Aug 25 17:53 UTC] No.45006225[source]▶
If they do it, I never want to hear any criticism of the great firewall of China from them ever again.
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est ◴[25 Aug 25 01:18 UTC] No.45009326[source]▶
I read on twitter, can't find the exact link, a chinese content site operating in .sg for many years, survived multiple "internet purges" by China, got banned by UK authorities last month.
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msgodel ◴[25 Aug 25 01:21 UTC] No.45009336[source]▶
I remember reading posts a decade or two ago on either Linode's forums or some other place like LinuxQuestions in broken English about tunneling through firewalls with ssh from I assume Chinese people.

I've started seeing posts like that from British people now. Absolutely wild. So much for the birthplace of common law.

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phatfish ◴[25 Aug 25 06:29 UTC] No.45010852[source]▶
A slim chance of getting outed for watching porn is more important to UK males than enforcing an age gate to stop kids having unlimited access. This is all that shows.
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1. KoolKat23 ◴[25 Aug 25 08:44 UTC] No.45011687[source]▶
No it does not.

It's creating the infrastructure for mass surveillance (this is mass surveillance) and shifting the Overton window.

You're fine with this, what's the next target. They're already onto the subject of VPN's.

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