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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: 0.268s | 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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small_scombrus ◴[25 Aug 25 09:16 UTC] No.45011876[source]▶
Wikipedia is on the list of sites that the government is trying to force age verification on[1].

This isn't about people being scared they're going to be outed for watching porn. Even if the government honestly have no intentions to further restrict people's access to information, this is a genuine step towards authoritarian censorship.

I'm (somewhat hypocritically) not against purging 4chan & other sites that ferment dangerous right wing hatred from the internet, I am against anything that tries to limit or restrict access to legal content

1 - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr11qqvvwlo

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1. integralid ◴[26 Aug 25 00:42 UTC] No.45020921[source]▶
As you said, that's a bit hypocritical. 4chan content is legal content, they're operating as a lawful company. In fact, they ban most ways to stay anonymous (tor, vpns, known proxies), so if you want to commit crimes, don't do it on 4chan.

Mandatory disclaimer that /pol/ is only one board, and most of 4chan is not actually politics.