Ofcom — driven by the letter of British law that they are bound to follow, but still Ofcom — are quietly making Britain look (a) very silly and (b) as if we haven’t yet shucked-off the Americ…
From my perspective more damage has been wrought to British culture by the Disneyification of Winnie-the-Pooh (big fan of EH Shephard here) than by 4Chan.
This is definitely a more important point then the existence of websites.
Reddit, Lemmy and Discord the bad actors now, people here are the ones calling for ‘raids’ on websites, to dox people, to ruins anonymous internet users lives.
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This is definitely a more important point then the existence of websites.
And? Most countries do this. DCMA, GPDR, TAA are all laws that effect companies wishing to operate in countries where those laws are passed.
I guess 4chan-uk llc better watch out.
uk just needs to ban 4chan at the dns level and do humanity a favor
Türkish guy here: we’ve had DNS-level bans for more than 15 years. They are very easy to work around.
Wouldn’t that just be doing VPN sellers a favor?
Yeah, that worked great when the UK and others tried it with thepiratebay
How?
Reddit, Lemmy and Discord the bad actors now, people here are the ones calling for ‘raids’ on websites, to dox people, to ruins anonymous internet users lives.
4chan is tame by comparison.