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RobotToaster@mander.xyz to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 25 days ago

US messageboard 4Chan mocks £520,000 fine for UK online safety breaches

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US messageboard 4Chan mocks £520,000 fine for UK online safety breaches

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RobotToaster@mander.xyz to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 25 days ago
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4Chan responds to £520,000 Ofcom fine with AI picture of hamster
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The fine includes £450,000 for lack of age checks to prevent children from seeing pornography.
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  • Gentryfried@feddit.uk
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    25 days ago

    The British government in the year 3000 when a clerical error at 4Chan HQ leads to them panicking and actually paying this fine (They forgot what it was for)

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    Theoretically could 4chan take Ofcom to an American court for harassment or something I’m wondering.

    • aGlassDarkly@piefed.zip
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      25 days ago

      Funny you should mention it…

      4Chan launches legal action against Ofcom in US

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      Harassment for enforcing regulations? No.

      • Soot [any]@hexbear.net
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        Sure, why not? The UK has no right to enforce its fines, but 4chan probably does have the right to seek remedy for civil damages like dealing with this.

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          The UK has every right as long as the site is accessible there.

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            blob-no-thoughts People are not subject to laws of other countries unless their own country makes it so. The US has not made it so, therefore the UK, definitively, does not have the right. “Trying to overenforce your own countries laws” is not a valid defence against civil damages.

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            That’s not how nation states work friend.

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