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This is part of a wider trend of trying to solve real world problems with the stroke of a pen. It’s not going well.

• scarmig 1y ago
  Banning 4chan is just part of the UK's efforts to prevent drought. Every jpg shared and string written helps drain the oceans: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/uk-government-inexplicably-tells-citizens-to-delete-old-emails-and-pictures-to-save-water-during-national-drought-data-centres-require-vast-amounts-of-water-to-cool-their-systems https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/uk-government-ine...
• behringer 1y ago
  4chan and websites like it have never been the problem.
  • immibis 1y ago
    4chan is a major part of the reason why the guy who's currently destroying the USA has the power to currently destroy the USA. That's not nothing. That's very far from nothing.
• _mlbt 1y ago
  Just give up a few more rights…for everyone’s safety. Think of the children!
  • transcriptase 1y ago
    “just one more law bro. i promise bro just one more law and we’ll be safe bro. it’s just a little more surveillance bro. please just one more. one more law and we’ll stop all the threats bro. bro c’mon just give me access to your data and we’ll protect you i promise bro. think of the children bro. bro bro please we just need one more law bro, one more camera, one more database, and then we’ll all be safe bro”
    • ethbr1 1y ago
      sed 's/bro/mate/g'
      • akk0 1y ago
        That sounds more Australian, which still works but is a different story. I propose s/mate/chum/g
  • pojzon 1y ago
    [flagged]
    • boppo1 1y ago
      Didn't that get investigated, little came of it, and now they won't investigate 'because we did already'?
  • jonplackett 1y ago
    You needed a /s for the very literal people downvoting you.