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- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 1 week ago:
the “trucks” in your example are the users computers/phones.
No it’s the packets being sent from the 4chan server.
Stopping every single packet (or in the real world truck) to check it isn’t feasible, do that and you get 20 mile queues up the m20 (and the digital version of that). Plus any government trying to so it like that would get accused of tax payers money due to the insane amount of resources that would be needed.
Placing the responsibility on the company makes sense, so does issuing penalties for non compliance. The company that has a fine issued against them can of course ignore it if they’re set up outside the country that issues the fine. But they should then expect the country issuing the fine to escalate. If they don’t pay and don’t comply they can expect to have any assets in the uk seized and eventually get blocked from operating entirely. And probably have any executives arrested of they enter the country. Ofcom can’t just jump to getting a court order though because they need to be fair and give 4chan a chance to comply if they want to.
The problem with the online safety act is that it exists at all, and that they expect people to use third party authentication services many of which are operating from countries with poor data protection regulations. That said, as iit does exist the logic of saying that companies are the ones responsible for what people access from their servers does make sense.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 1 week ago:
now, some enterprising individuals have taken it upon themselves to buy, smuggle, and then sell those beverages inside the UK
Wouldn’t it be more akin to those individuals putting the alcohol into 4chan’s trucks that are taking other stuff to the UK? (and worse with 4chan’s knowledge)
In that case do you think it’s unreasonable that the uk government imposes penalties for 4chan refusing to remove the alcohol that they know is there from the trucks.
And then if 4chan then refuses to pay said penalties start to not allow them to bring any trucks into the uk at all?
- Comment on Sunlight special 1 week ago:
Lol did you accidentally search for something like ‘where to get the worst English breakfast in London’?
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 1 week ago:
It’s a process. They need to issue the fine first to give them a chance to pay rather than jumping to blocking it. If they continue to refuse to pay that’s where it’ll go.
- Comment on Sunlight special 1 week ago:
No one taking about a Fucking boiled egg?
- Comment on Sunlight special 1 week ago:
Wtf? Corned beef? Are you in one of the American cities that are named London rather than the capital of the uk?
- Comment on I see your canal, and raise you a water bridge 3 weeks ago:
Aquaduct
- Comment on get back here 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know if the price has gone back to something sane, but just after the pandemic pallets were at about £50 each.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 4 weeks ago:
Oh I was forgetting that op might live in a country with shit labour laws.
Where I am that kind of firing they need to be pretty confident you’ve been stealing or you fucked up real bad and got caught trying to cover it up rather than owning it so it can get mitigated.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 5 weeks ago:
Lol got caught with her hand in the cookie jar?
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 month ago:
Also it’s much easier to triple a small number than a big one.
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 2 months ago:
Ah ok. That makes sense where it came from then.
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 2 months ago:
I think there was a lot of speculation and jokes about that’s what would happen next from people on here and other places.
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 2 months ago:
They’ve said nothing of the sort.
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 2 months ago:
With regards to this most people are just ignoring the law. VPN use has gone through the roof.
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 2 months ago:
Thanks. Outside of the top line maniacs I’m not really aware of any of the other names in the American government.
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 2 months ago:
Who?
- Comment on Wakey Wakey 2 months ago:
Won’t it? I remember touching the contacts on a 9v to my train track braces when I was a teenager Fucking felt that.
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 2 months ago:
Her was such a good film.
- Comment on Evolution of the k'chain che'malle, pretty much 2 months ago:
I hear their love can be bone shattering.
(honestly I think whoever was rolling the dice for Toc just kept getting 1s)
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
how much effort they put on showing the world the consequences of extremely stupid acts so the rest don’t have to do it.
Kinda sucks to be the world’s policy alpha tester though.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
You think given how well thought through this online safety act has been that they’ll understand that would be an issue and legislate accordingly?
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
How many small businesses can afford such permit? Hell, I’d argue that even bigger companies will have a problem paying for that.
Feature, not a bug.
They want people back in offices to help landlords and property prices. This way they can say that remote work is not banned and it’s just companies choosing not to buy a permit and offer it.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
Oh that makes it easier for the government.
Maybe that the end goal, force people back into the office by banning vpn
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
Ban remote working, vpn now only allowed from business addresses as registered with companies house.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
Next step: ban on remote work.
- Comment on UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition. 2 months ago:
What I don’t get is why it’s ok to view that at 18 but not at 17 years and 364 days. Surely just ban the site for everyone.
- Comment on UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition. 2 months ago:
For example, the Government is very concerned about small platforms that host harmful content, such as forums dedicated to encouraging suicide or self-harm.
So they’ve identified a problem with this type of content, and the answer is to put it behind an age wall. So is it a-ok for anyone over 18 to be encouraged to self harm or commit suicide according to the government?
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 months ago:
This is a good point, however the me meme is comparing to 1996. I think there’s some way to go until it drops back that far.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 months ago:
It’s true that China’s co2 per capita has gone up sharply, however it’s still about 30% lower than the yanks. China is also dwarfing other countries with the amounts of renewable energy currently under construction globalenergymonitor.org/…/solar_wind_in_construct…
