4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine

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• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I would normally be sympathetic to their stand except earlier this year when this first started, they called on Trump to use all available political leverages to prevent this and protect free speech. Calling on Trump to protect free speech is just absolutely ridiculous.

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  the UK is fucked

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  • webp@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At least they are a little less fucked now lmao

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• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I never thought I’d be siding with 4chan.

  Just to let you know I was never a 4chan user.

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  • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s exactly what a 4chan user would say… *narrows eyes in suspicion*

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    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I love you, my coin operated boy!

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• hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Welp, i agree with 4chan.

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• Soulg@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Free pepe

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• Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  United Kondom

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• Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hate agreeing with fucking 4chan but fair

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• pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Having Fedi folks agreeing with 4chan is not on my bingo card this year, or ever.

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  • Cornpop@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Deferent but similar

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  • maskquerade@ttrpg.network ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s one of the few places on the internet that still allows freedom of speech.

    The last thing I want is to be stuck with curated spaces where people like you get to decide what I get to see.

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lol its a hate speech site, nazi bar. They literally use n-words. As someone from a family of immigrants, I don’t deal with bigotry like “go back to your country”, so no thanks, you can go enjoy the toxicity if you want lol.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Inb4 major Lemmy instances get banned

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  • roserose56@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Let’s start with who they going to fine, and which domains they will Ban!
    But yea, it could happen.

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• spez@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I might not like what you have to say, but I’ll defend to death, your right to say it kinda shit

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Within reason. Libel, incitement to violence, hate speech, etc, should be illegal for obvious reasons

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Maybe, but what about when governments start saying being anti-israel is hate speech?

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    • nekbardrun@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There is an obvious reason why countries like Germany make a strong stance against any “trolling” nazi joke/imagery/salute.

      But America’s First Amendment seems to not understand that reason (or only understand when it is weaponized against communism, black people, trans rights and all the “woke culture” stuff)

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    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Everyone has a different definition, but yeah generally free speech in an ideal sense extends to just before you start causing what a reasonable person would concern harm to someone.

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• maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well the internet is written mostly by bots. Everything needs Id and spying. We may end up building a new internet so fuck the old internet

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We’ll build a new internet with blackjack and hookers.

    Just like it used to be.

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You’re right here, building it with us!

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  • jared@mander.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    NomadNet feels a bit like a new old internet.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Meshtastic-Net

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    • semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh meshtastic is really cool but even without GPS broadcasting, it is FAR from private. There are some serious flaws with its encryption apparently that the devs don’t want to address.

      That being said, meshtastic is awesome and everyone should try it. Its a lot of fun and you can “meet” cool people in your community who are kind of maketspace-adjacent.

      Also don’t listen to the meshcore grifters, meshcore is proprietary and requires you to pay for licenses to use its full feature set. They’re like reverse Linux users who just show up whenever meshtastic is mentioned to try to convince you to give your freedoms away

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• fistac0rpse@fedia.io ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It's ridiculous for the UK to issue fines to a company who doesn't operate in the country. Just block access if that's whatever your stupid laws dictate.

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  • veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What? And let loose what is basically an opportunity for a bribe?

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    EU fined number of tech giants before, this is not new. If you have users from a country, you are operating in this country.

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    • semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Those tech giants operate in the EU and have EU customers. 4Chan does neither and stores no user data. At that point the onus is on the user and the UK/EU should be going after their own citizens that use it if they have a problem with it being used. Ideally, they wouldn’t go after anyone but here we are.

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• mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good riddance

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m honestly surprised you’re sitting at 10/10, but honestly, I kind of expect it from this site nowadays.

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• maskquerade@ttrpg.network ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good. Don’t give in to these parasites.

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nothing of value was lost.

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• TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  hands on hips “That’ll stop them.” /s

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• schwim@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The British have all the good luck.

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  • Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yep, I just love having the Internet restricted for me! /s

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    • Cybersteel@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To be fair it’s fkin fourchan

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  • FerretyFever0@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, not really.

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  • mistermodal@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ℹ️ Outside of London, the GDP of the UK is at the level of either Missouri or Mississippi, and both so bad I don’t even need to check which one it is. When you pass a banknote back and forth with your mate that boosts GDP so the country is considered to be functionally uninhabited by experts. Britain is now widely considered to be a hoax.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So, while I don’t know anything real about the UK, having been there once, it surely felt and feels from their people in the interwebs that you are right.

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• DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Send a ‘smart’ fine. Check mate, shitposters.

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• rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  hell yeah

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• mistermodal@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t they ban VPNs lol? Been years since I even thought about this place

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  • maskquerade@ttrpg.network ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    4chan itself is next to impossible to post on due to captchas and cooldowns.

    You need to be using something like owo.vg, which I believe is somehow related to kiwifarms. It allows users to post with a VPN and makes sure the cooldowns actually work. On normal 4chan, you’re hit with a cooldown and then it just restarts when the time is up.

    Kinda ridiculous how difficult it is to engage on a free speech platform, but i guess that’s by design. The powers that be want to make sure we’re all being herded to their safespaces where we can’t say what we want.

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  • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re not banned, but some ISPs block them anyways

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