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Speaking as a UK citizen: you're exactly right. If the UK wants to prevent 4chan from being imported into the UK then it needs to block it at the border as it w
by gnfargbl 7mo ago
Speaking as a UK citizen: you're exactly right. If the UK wants to prevent 4chan from being imported into the UK then it needs to block it at the border as it would for physical goods.
The fact that's technically hard to do (at least without going full-on CCP) doesn't change the situation. Attempting to fine a foreign entity for doing something that breaks no laws in the foreign entity's jurisdiction is just risible.
- thunderfork 7mo agoIt's very much a rock-and-a-hard-place situation. "It's an import", so they have to respond to it like they'd respond to imports... But unlike physical imports, there's a sense that blocking these imports is an affront to base philosophical freedom in a way that prohibiting physical imports isn't.
- akersten 7mo ago> there's a sense that blocking these imports is an affront to base philosophical freedom in a way that prohibiting physical imports isn't. It would serve UK legislators well to explore that tingling sense some more before they consider any further efforts in this direction, but that's just my two pence.
- fauigerzigerk 7mo agoUK ISPs do block some domains though.
- gnfargbl 7mo agoWhich does nothing to block 4chan, because everyone knows what a VPN is and how to get one.
- dmix 7mo agoThe same UK politicians are now pushing to block VPNs. Hence the great firewall talk which they are trying to skirt by fining US companies.
- fauigerzigerk 7mo agoRight, but it shows their mindset. They're not letting China comparisons stop them from doing anything. It's not about the technology. In their mind, it's about the purpose and the legitimacy of any censorship.
- frostiness 7mo agoUnlike other websites though, VPNs are generally banned from posting on 4chan, which would definitely hurt traffic.
- cocoto 7mo agoYes but the number of 4chan passes would skyrocket to be able to post with a VPN.
- cm2187 7mo agoAnd we shall call it "the Great Firewall of the UK". It is amazing that these guys don't see the irony of monkeying totaliterian states policies, in term of surveillance and censorship.
- tokyobreakfast 7mo agoSo, the Great FUK for short?
- bigfatkitten 7mo agoThe UK, like Australia and many of its other offshoots has always had a bit of a totalitarian streak.
- 2postsperday 7mo ago[dead]
- hunterpayne 7mo agoOddly that's Zuck doing that. And weirdly, the law would only apply to app stores. I think that's a separate movement from what the UK is doing though. That US law is designed to hamstring Meta's competition not restrict political speech but it can be abused the same way I think.
- bitwize 7mo agoThe Debian apt repository is a "covered app store" under the law, as is any place that makes software available for download.
- heavyset_go 7mo agoThere is no "US law" there are 45+ pending or passed pieces of state legislation, along with the federal Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) that's yet to be passed. The PACs that push the one specific law you're talking about also push laws in other states, and federally, that are very, very different and draconian.
- drcongo 7mo agoI hope they do block it.