4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine
4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine
www.independent.co.uk
4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37491366
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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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You’re right here, building it with us!
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NomadNet feels a bit like a new old internet.
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Like a LAN party just a lil bigger.
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Meshtastic-Net
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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, and im like 99% sure you can just be triangulated anyway.
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 makerspace-adjacent and usually kind in general.
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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Having Fedi folks agreeing with 4chan is not on my bingo card this year, or ever.
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Deferent but similar
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Removed by Moderator — Modlog
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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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Within reason. Libel, incitement to violence, hate speech, etc, should be illegal for obvious reasons
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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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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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Maybe, but what about when governments start saying being anti-israel is hate speech?
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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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EU fined number of tech giants before, this is not new. If you have users and derive income from a country, you are operating in this country.
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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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What? And let loose what is basically an opportunity for a bribe?
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Welp, i agree with 4chan.
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Inb4 major Lemmy instances get banned
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Let's start with who they going to fine, and which domains will they Ban!
\ But yea, it could happen.
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hands on hips "That'll stop them." /s
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the UK is fucked
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At least they are a little less fucked now lmao
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4chan is full of assholes, but blocking websites is pretty fucked. what person wants their government doing that?
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I never thought I'd be siding with 4chan.
Just to let you know I was never a 4chan user.
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That's exactly what a 4chan user would say... narrows eyes in suspicion
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I love you, my coin operated boy!
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That catchca is fucking ass. Who the hell wants to do that every post?
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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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We're allowed to call it removed now at least
/s
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Send a 'smart' fine. Check mate, shitposters.
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Nothing of value was lost.
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Free pepe
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United Kondom
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UK is ultra lame for this.
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Don't they ban VPNs lol? Been years since I even thought about this place
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They're not banned, but some ISPs block them anyways
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Not if you're paying iirc
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I see why they don't care about it then lol
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hell yeah
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Good riddance
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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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now i'm curious, your comment could lean both ways, which button did/would you push?
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The British have all the good luck.
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No, not really.
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ℹ️ Outside of London, the GDP of the UK is at the level of either Missouri or Mississippi, and both are 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. Britain is now widely known to be a hoax. Experts consider the country functionally uninhabited, much like "Australia".
I hate agreeing with fucking 4chan but fair