Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think Iran should fine the UK just as much for allowing the Satanic verses to be sold since that novel are banned in Iran.

  Any argument they give is the same argument why the 4chan shit is laughable.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You probably don’t want Iran to have jurisdiction over your dot-com.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Iran

    Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Iran.[2] The list of crimes punishable by death includes murder; rape; child molestation; homosexuality; drug trafficking; armed robbery; kidnapping; terrorism; burglary; incest; fornication; adultery; sodomy; sexual misconduct; prostitution;[3][4] plotting to overthrow the Islamic government; political dissidence; sabotage; arson; rebellion; apostasy; blasphemy; extortion; counterfeiting; smuggling; recidivist consumption of alcohol; producing or preparing food, drink, cosmetics, or sanitary items that lead to death when consumed or used; producing and publishing pornography; using pornographic materials to solicit sex; capital perjury; recidivist theft; certain military offences (e. g., cowardice, assisting the enemy); “waging war against God”; “spreading corruption on Earth”; espionage; and treason.[5][6] Iran carried out at least 977 executions in 2015, at least 567 executions in 2016,[7] and at least 507 executions in 2017.[8] In 2018 there were at least 249 executions, at least 273 in 2019, at least 246 in 2020, at least 290 in 2021, at least 553 in 2022, at least 834 in 2023,[9] and at least 901 executions in 2024.[10] In 2023, Iran was responsible for 74% of all recorded executions in the world, with the UN confirming that at least 40 people were executed in one week in 2024.

    Frankly, 4chan would probably have violated some of those Iranian laws.

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    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think that’s what @ArmchairAce1944 was getting at

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah, not disagreeing with him.

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• General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Salman Rushdie: First time?

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• BigMike@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, how come the EU gets to regulate American services with all their data privacy laws? The EU is a tool of the governments to assert control over us, the common people. Plain and simple

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  • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ofcom, famously a part of EU since brexit

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  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The UK hasn’t been part of the EU for a long ass time. Have you been living under a rock?

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  • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The UK had a Brexit just so they could leave the EU.

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  • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ignoring that the UK isn’t part of the EU, the EUs privacy laws extend to all European citizens, and it has treaties with most of the world (including the US) allowing it to enforce those.

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• BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pretty sure 4chan is Japanese. Currently owned by Hiroyuki Nishimura, who also owns 2channel. He acquired 4chan from Christopher Poole 2015. Good Smile Company is a major investor but he’s still in charge.

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  • nagaram@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Its probably a parent company situation.

    Lots of corpo structures are just large parent companies that actually just own a bunch of smaller companies so that the parent company gets the profits while the smaller companies make the risky products and can be bankrupted at any minute.

    The company I work for does that. We just bought a couple companies that were competitors in a risky but profitable market. The full idea is that if one company gets sued to oblivion, we let that company die, move all the employees and customers to the backup company, and call it a day.

    Capitalism baby!

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• DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Neocons were never that bright.

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