Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoWith wire fraud and csam, the activity is illegal in the host country as well as the target country, which is not the case here.
If 4chan make revenue by advertising UK goods and services to UK users, then they are very much operating in the UK.
By your logic, any website with advertising is operating in EVERY country worldwide.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
No. Every ad platform out there has the advertiser choose what region to advertise in. Nobody wants to pay to advertise in countries where they don’t sell their products.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
And as a website you don’t deal with any of that, you just implement an ad platform’s ad window and they serve whatever regional ads are relevant to your visitors. So yes, practically all websites with advertising would be operating in every country worldwide, by your logic.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Again you’re just factually wrong. The website operator has a wide degree of control over what can appear on their site in the admin panel.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Given that’s how the entire Internet works, it does stand on its own terms. The UK isn’t influential enough to force the entire Internet to follow suit. They can take it or leave it.