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

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411 points donpott | 2 comments | 22 Aug 25 10:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.438s | source
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nickdothutton ◴[22 Aug 25 12:15 UTC] No.44983582[source]▶
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.

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M95D ◴[22 Aug 25 15:50 UTC] No.44986058[source]▶
We need a DNS server with a history database, not just a cache, preferably with a distributed history database.

Visit a website and it was blocked by the "official" DNS? Declare the IP invalid in the webUI (or the browser plugin) of the local DNS and it will get you the previous IP from the database.

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patrickmay ◴[22 Aug 25 17:04 UTC] No.44986972[source]▶
Or teach people how to point to a different DNS server in an area with laws more amenable to their preferences.
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prmoustache ◴[22 Aug 25 21:53 UTC] No.44990306[source]▶
Until coutry implement the great firewall and it becomes a play of cat & mouse.
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1. M95D ◴[25 Aug 25 09:09 UTC] No.45011845[source]▶
... or until the blocking starts at the root name servers. There are only a few of them.
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2. immibis ◴[25 Aug 25 18:48 UTC] No.45017482[source]▶
The root zone file is publicly distributed by IANA [1] so you can download it and ignore the servers themselves. Then your lookup (from the resolver you're running yourself) starts at a particular country's top level.

As for censorship, because it's hierarchical, they'd have to remove an entire country code from the root servers.

[1] https://www.iana.org/domains/root/files