Comment on The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies

• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  UK can get fucking bent. Come and take it.

  I assure you this is what will happen. If 4chan won’t pay the fine, they will be blocked in the UK by the Internet service providers (as this is the next step in the process). They will then see that non compliance with Ofcom decision is significantly more expensive than compliance.

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How are they going to collect? Extradite to pay a fine?

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  • Nindelofocho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re deluded if you think the UK is going to get a cent from 4chan. The most they can do is direc their ISPs to block 4chan IPs but that wont stop people from tunneling to the site. Thats all they have the legal jurisdiction to do like it or not

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      4chan will pay the fine and engage immediately when it is blocked in the UK as it will result in their top line getting hit. You are deluded if you think otherwise.

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      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How much money do you think 4chan gets from the UK? I promise it’s not much.

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      • Nindelofocho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why would 4chan pay the fine? Its not like 4chan will take all that much of a hit because people can tunnel out and still participate in however 4chan monetizes if they really wanted to. Also lmao seize assets. 4chan has no assets in the UK to seize afaik.

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  • sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    they will be blocked in the UK

    This is the only real solution, and it’s a inconvenient one at best to surfers thanks to solutions like VPN.

    Can’t stop the signal

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    • Docus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not ‘inconvenience at best’. The vast majority of people won’t use a VPN, so it will be a loss of revenue. Even if you are willing to pay for a VPN (or daft enough to use a free one), it’s an inconvenience as using a VPN can have side effects, such as other things getting blocked unexpectedly, or cause websites to redirect you to the local version in the country of your VPN server.

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      • sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        daft enough to use a free one

        C’mon, it’s 4chan we’re talking about here. The gambit runs from “yes, that daft” to “good luck, I’m behind 7 proxies”.

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  • Shivering6658@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Go lick boot elsewhere UKian colonialist turd

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