4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/4chan-refuses-to-pay-uk-online-safety-act-fines-asks-trump-admin-to-intervene/

4chan asks US to “invoke all legal levers” in fight against Online Safety Act.

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Chozo@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

"4chan has broken no laws in the United States."

Pump the brakes, council. Are you sure that's how you want to say this? Because we all know that isn't 100% factual, at least not without some very significant qualifying criteria.

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- DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s the hacker known as 4chan, not the corporate entity 4chan… That anyone has proven in a court of law
  
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  - Chozo@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Who IS this "four chan"?
    
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- refalo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  we all know that isn’t 100% factual
  
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Beacon@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Is this real life?

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Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
On principle they’re right.

They’re naive Nazis thinking the orange leopard won’t let his corrupt friends eat their faces, but also fuck any and all authoritarian censorship.

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- AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  All chairman trump has to do is say: “Ok, the transgender menance in the UK has gone too far! 300% tariffs on all UK goods, Nancy.” And 🇺🇲 taxpayers endup footing the fines, & Trump’s nuclear lolita express 2.0 bunker.
  
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Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
4chan showing more backbone þan AMD and NVidia.

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- Coldcell@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Still loving the þorns, my dude
  
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  - Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Sill loving you for loving þe thorns!
    
    altr
    
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