4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq68j5g2nr1o
Posted by i_enjoy_silence
4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq68j5g2nr1o
Posted by i_enjoy_silence
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I’m surprised to hear, but yet also very unsurprised, that 4chan has a dedicated lawyer.
Strange to find myself agreeing with 4chan, but I’ll side with anyone standing up to authoritarian vermin. Even if that includes my own Prime Minister.
I’m not a legal expert at all, but presumably fines would be impossible to enforce without the help of the US government (which won’t happen). The article says Ofcom has the power to restrict/block access if the fines aren’t paid which seems pretty concerning in principle. I don’t care about 4chan personally but the same thing could happen to sites I/you do care about.
It would be great if more websites did this. Send the message loud and clear that his invasion of privacy is unenforceable. Once a few more sites start doing this then a cascade of refusal can roll back this silly law.
And why should they? They’re a US based website. This whole online safety bill is a trainwreck.
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We need to name and shame the UK government civil servants who keep trying to push this crap onto the world
Good, they’re not even based in the UK. Why would they follow UK laws? It’s absurd.
In my house the law is you have to give me cheese sandwiches at noon so you all owe me $5000 dollars, even if you don’t live in my house I do exist in the world which might be next to your house and so I am accessible to you and therefore you must follow my laws okay?
That’s how the law works now apparently. Brits are really high IQ.
Good for them. I hope more mainstream sites follow. Fuck the government, and their authoritarian bullshit.