L’autorità di regolamentazione delle comunicazioni del Regno Unito conferma una multa di 20.000 sterline a 4Chan
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-communications-regulator-confirms-20000-4chan-fine/
di OGSyedIsEverywhere
L’autorità di regolamentazione delle comunicazioni del Regno Unito conferma una multa di 20.000 sterline a 4Chan
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-communications-regulator-confirms-20000-4chan-fine/
di OGSyedIsEverywhere
16 commenti
They will never see this money.
It’s symbolic at best, and will become evidence of how shambolic and toothless the act is overall…
4chan’s response to the fine was probably a 500-page PDF of anime memes and racial slurs.
This fucking government is a joke lmao. They will never see that money.
I can only assume this is designed to send a message to legit sites rather than scare asshats who run anonymous image boards.
>Services who choose to restrict access rather than protect U.K. users remain on our watchlist
Absolutely insane comment from Ofcom.
Apparently 4chan is now owned by Hiroyuki Nishimura (and other investors). He apparently lives in Paris but has always refused to pay any fines levied by anyone.
And everyone knows 4chan is easily accessed by anyone of any age in the UK via a VPN so the OSA is a complete joke.
This fine will hit 4Chan where it hurts
They may be forced to downsize to a smaller bedroom in their parents’ basement and sell their collection of dank memes on eBay
I hope they don’t fucking pay it , fuck this censorship shit.
How do 4Chan make money?
Even if they could find advertisers willing to place ads next to racist shit-talk and edgelord provocation, nobody who would see those ads has any kind of money
This is such a de ja vu moment. I’m from Russia and I witnessed when rules like this were implemented there, hidden by the “we are protecting the kids” mask, similar fines were issued and many website just ignored it, like 4chan will do. This lead to the goverment pushing internet providers to implement techincal measure to be able to ban such websites, Roskomnadzor (basically Ofcom on steroids) are now issuing the list of the websites should be banned and internet providers just fetch it and apply on their network routers. I wonder how long will it take till the goverment/Ofcom will start asking Openreach, Hyperoptic, etc to do the same, as they will have to do something with websites that don’t have an actual business entity in the UK, hence are not going to pay, such as 4chan.
Porn sites still on the first page of Google results with no restrictions in the UK.
This legislation is a joke. It’s not fit for purpose. It’s toothless.
This governments committment to making my internet browsing experience as painful as possible is almost admirable in their absolute unwavering dedication. I do love having to flip VPN servers constantly to access chunks of the internet because certain servers are blocked by certain websites. Living in the UK was already grim but clearly Tories and Labour felt it just wasn’t quite miserable enough.
Still it’s better than having all my details leaked like the dafts sods who actually went and verified their ID on services like discord.
I’m sure that 4chan will absolutely feel that.
I don’t even use the site, but if this helps show the world the stupidity of the OSA then that’s something I guess.
/sarcasm
I wonder whether this will have political costs.
The online safety act is deeply unpopular with the US government, Ofcom fining and punishing US companies may draw Washington’s ire.
4chan won’t pay. In fact, i’m hedging bets they’ll start leaking info out and show the OSA is a complete joke
Going after the small worm.
Meta’s Algorithms are much more unsuitable for Internet Safety.
Zuck says jump the UK government says how high.