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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 | 3 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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dmitrygr ◴[24 Aug 25 17:25 UTC] No.45005981[source]▶
I look forward to the current us admin forcing the uk to very publicly walk this back. Their motivation will have nothing to do with defending free speech, but an enemy of my enemy IS my friend.
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lupusreal[dead post] ◴[24 Aug 25 17:38 UTC] No.45006097[source]▶
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bediger4000 ◴[24 Aug 25 18:00 UTC] No.45006281[source]▶
Hard disagree. Trump can apparently be bribed. This could be solved by a discrete transfer of cryptocurrency to a specific Maltese or Transnistrian wallet.
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lupusreal ◴[24 Aug 25 18:20 UTC] No.45006412[source]▶
Just how much revenue do you think 4chan gets, from the UK of all places? I can't imagine this being worth a bribe to Hiro.
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bediger4000 ◴[24 Aug 25 19:10 UTC] No.45006806[source]▶
I'm not sure what size bribes the current administration takes. I'm sure that in some situations haggling takes place.

Trump, as a professed Christian, could possibly take a "widow's mites" approach to a bribe from 4chan.

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1. lupusreal ◴[25 Aug 25 09:23 UTC] No.45011912[source]▶
If anything, it is in 4chan's interest to be banned by UK ISPs since this will induce the sale of a few more passes, which permit posting from VPNs.

Anyway, 4chan barely keeps the lights on as it is. Worrying about 4chan bribing politicians is absurd. Either politicians will help 4chan out of some sense of self-interest, or they won't help at all.

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2. filoleg ◴[25 Aug 25 15:02 UTC] No.45014644[source]▶
> If anything, it is in 4chan's interest to be banned by UK ISPs since this will induce the sale of a few more passes, which permit posting from VPNs.

I sense a bit of a flaw in this strategy, given that 4chan being banned in UK would presumably block any payments for passes from UK-origin banks/cards made to 4chan bank accounts as well.

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3. lupusreal ◴[25 Aug 25 15:37 UTC] No.45015031[source]▶
4chan no longer accepts any such payment anyway. They only take crypto through coinbase.