FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 days ago
USians are surprised that they must follow the foreign law if they do business (achieve income) outside of the USA.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 days ago
FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Found a USian.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s an extremely shitty and bad faith law, sorry for being the devil’s advocate.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It is not a great piece of legislation but the statements from 4chan are hysterical 😂
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
You are extremely wrong and will inevitably have your face rubbed in that fact when the UK fails to do anything to/about 4chan
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It is quite simple really - 4chan will either pay and comply or be blocked in the UK, lose all the revenue from UK traffic and be constantly on guard where their financial assets are as these will be seized if handled by UK bank.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
4chan will pay nothing, the UK has no power to seize any assets 4chan has, any revenue they lose will be negligible and temporary
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You USians are funny, you really believe you are exceptional and your shitty companies are above the law.
EU and EU countries proved you multiple times when they fined your big tech. This time it will be no different.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 2 days ago
So are you saying the UK government doesn’t have the power to block 4chan in the UK?
Interesting.
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Im going to take a charitable read on this and just assume that you’re misunderstanding or uninformed of the context at the core of this, because nothing of what you said is really applicable.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Read again than.
The idiot writing this blog is surprised that 4chan must follow UK law while having customers/users in the UK.
Which part is not applicable?
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
The part where they have any infrastructure, operations, revenue, or presence at all in the UK. They don’t, so the UK doesn’t have jurisdiction. This isn’t like the Apple stuff, where physical Apple products are being sold at retail in the EU/UK. UK residents are intentionally navigating to a website outside UK jurisdiction. If a UK resident goes to Mallorca on holiday, Spanish laws, not UK laws, apply because they’re in fucking Spain.
Also you should probably click that About page on the linked blog dude. Unless some American just randomly wound up at UCL in 1988 then graduates, stayed in the UK, and got a job at UCW Aberystwyth, you might want to rethink the random bullshit you’re spouting off as fact lol.
Keelhaul@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I feel like I am missing something reading your comments, but it seems pretty clear to me that they do do business in the UK. They have users in the UK, to which they are providing a service (the 4chan message boards) in exchange for eyes on adverts placed on the page (from which 4chan makes money).
Just because this law is really stupid, and that 4chan does not have servers in the UK doesn’t really matter. UK laws can still be enforced for individuals in the UK (which is expressly what is stated in the message from ofcom). Ofcom is not demanding that age verification is implemented for all users world wide, but for UK users. 4Chan can decide to not comply (which I think is good), but then it is not surprising that if you keep doing business in the UK (not blocking UK users/IPs) that fines (which 4chan will just ignore as they are not UK based) and possible bans on your service in the UK follow.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Do you understand how the Internet is working? You don’t have to have an infrastructure in a country to be present there.
USians need to get used to following the law. Shocking, I know.