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Now 4chan becomes the face of resistance to this shit, and people will think it is only being opposed by a bunch of deplorable incels. It delegitimizes the entire opposition - you can't speak out against it any more without being associated with 4chan and whatever the fuck kiwi farm is.

At least that's the risk, and that's why I wish these sites would go die in a hole rather than involve themselves with things I care about.

Wikipedia also sued but lost

I’m just saying like I oppose the death penalty, but there are certain cases where I’m not going to die on that particular hill. I don’t believe they should be killed, but the context of the moment is going to alienate more people than it convinces.

Same thing here. I oppose identification laws but making that argument in defense of those two is going to make folks think it’s a fanatical position rather than a reasonable one.

It’s far better to argue from a reasonable position and then extend that to other cases than just argue these places should be allowed to continue to weaponize anonymity.

One of the games that was removed was a horror game about a stalker, which was made to raise awareness of sexual violence. Is that a rape game?

did hacker go by this name prior to successfully taking over 4chan? that’s the question

Its a recruitment portal, basically.

My assumption is if they win it would be a snowball effect of other such non-uk based sites suing for non compliance to UK regulation. This wouldn’t be of great use for sites that operate in the UK as well as other countries and target UK demographic in a commercial manner.

OK so basically if they lose, the law will just stay in place. There is an example of a (less controversial and) more major site going to court against the OSA and losing.

The Wikimedia Foundation recently lost a case against Ofcom placing them in the highest level of regulation based on how many people from the UK visit Wikipedia. Basically Wikipedia tried to argue that the following:

1. They cannot divulge the identities of it’s contributors because some of them come from regimes where if the authorities knew who they were, they’d get killed.
2. They do not have the money and resources.
3. Considering they are an encyclopedia, maybe they shouldn’t be subject to this because they aren’t a porn or social site (although their search feature means they are subject to the OSA).

The court basically ruled on the side of Ofcom (the UK’s version of the FCC who were arguing against Wikipedia) but said to Ofcom that they should consider exceptions for Wikipedia considering their position as the Prime Encyclopedia on the internet. Whether OfCom will take that on board is a whole other thing.

I also don’t see how they could win because what they could say “If you cannot comply, Geoblock”, and on top of that I think Kiwifarms or 4chan, the former hosting members who tried to commit offenses under the terrorist act against a Northern Irish Streamer, or 4chan, a site that is the source for a lot of far right ideologies that lead to terror attacks, would get a fair hearing over this. Like this is a bit like if a far left group tried to fight KOSA in the US. If Kiwifarms and 4chan win this it would be both a major shock to the system and basically the government pinning their colours to the post in favour of the far right while stopping things like tweets about palestine or access to educational resources on sensitive subjects.

Also, the main argument put forward to pass the OSA was basically target sites like 4chan and Kiwifarms (even though we know now it doesn’t just target those sites, but also all social media, blogs, search engines…). The bill does cover…

• Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for suicide.
• Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an act of deliberate self-injury.
• Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an eating disorder or behaviours associated with an eating disorder.
• Abusive content against the characteristics of Race, Religion, Sex, Sexual orentation, disability, or Gender Reassignment.
• Content that incites hate for the above
• Content that encourages, promotes, or provides instructions for acts against a person.
• Bullying content.
• Content encouraging stunts.

All of which are things 4chan and Kiwifarms are notorious for. So basically it’s like if the KKK challenges the UK government against the Terrorist act because it covers them.

However the question they are putting forward is that “Since we’re not in the UK, we should not be beholden to UK laws”, which is a little bit of a problem because, say, if someone from the Netherlands accesses a childporn site hosted in Canada, it doesn’t matter if someone in the Netherlands is not beholden to the laws of Canada, they can still be arrested for kiddyporn. Just because you are in one country and you are using a service in another doesn’t mean you can’t be arrested.

The OSA puts all the onus on instituting the law on the service provider, which I’m not sure if that is due to absolute arrogance of how the internet works (people in the Lords didn’t even know what a VPN was) or something more Machiavellian (forcing medium to small sites to give money to companies MPs and Lords and their allies have invested in).

I think the ruling would be something like “no, it still applies, we wrote it specifially for sites like you, you can either age-gate or Geoblock the UK, your move.”

But yeah, the OSA is a stupid fucking law that doesn’t work in any sense and is being used to censor everything from Wikipedia to fucking shitposters in the name of the children. Any law that requires fining people in other jurisdictions isn’t going to fucking work.

I have no idea how precedence works in the UK.

So what you need to understand about the UK is that Parliament is Sovereign. We don’t have a balance of power like with the US with the President, Courts and Congress.

Our version of 1776 was 1649, when England beheaded Charles the First. After the restoration and the Glorious Revolution, the line was that Parliament called all the shots, not the Monarch, Prime Minister or the Courts. It’s why the 13 colonies were all “no taxatio

This person also denies that Musk did a Nazi salute. They argue in bad faith and are not worth listening to.

Exactly, they have killed people, these motherfuckers don’t give a shit about free speech or shit, they just don’t want to face consequences for driving people to suicide.

It’s more than that. They argue that the whole network that we call the Internet was invented and is currently maintained by America (and they are not wrong), that other nations failed to invent and deploy competitive solutions and UK trying to enforce some rulings on an American network is absurd.

Do you think the UK government even considered that? Do you think the Tories, who passed this law, or labour, who are full-throatedly supporting this law, even considered this?

They didn’t even consider vpns. We literally have a member of the House of lords talking about VPNs as if they were some obscure technology. She literally said “Have your heard of VPN”, one referring to it as if it was some sort of singular service.

Who the fuck is Curtis Yarvin? And what the shit does P25 have to do with 4Chan?

Direct ties? They’ve trip-fagged once on it or something?

Yes, you probably haven’t. If an entity or person does not have a presence in a country it should not be subject to those laws. Their home country should reject enforcing any penalties or extraditing their citizen. Of course the US is the most notorious and more successful in getting people that never had any meaningful relation to the US extradited.

I also don’t think the UK or an EU nation’s court should be able to try a case against a US government agency, say the FDA because they do not follow the same standards. Or even against ICE agents because they abduct people.

Democratic countries should be able to have their own laws even if larger countries disagree with them.

Do you seriously think 4chan is in danger of having the fines collected? They are just right wingers trying to spur the US government into blackmailing the UK into changing their laws to align with US sensibilities and ‘values’. Fuck that.

NO, there has to be a good guy who only does good things and a bad guy who only does bad things!

–Lemmy

Wow.

You must be a fan, to be so light and kind about it.

Yes despite my downvotes I’ll stick my neck out to agree with you.

If a US company wanted to sell liquor online in the UK, they’d have to follow U.K. laws for alcohol licensing and age-verified delivery.

I don’t know why age verification is any different. That’s the UK law (which I disagree with for what it’s worth, certainly in its current implementation) and if you want to operate in the UK (and for a website that means be accessible to U.K. audiences) you follow U.K. laws while here.

Both earlier and later, i’m personally more interested to gather the transition date between when someone thought we’d take care of it and the realization that noone was going to take care of it.

But it’s still fun to shake the jar and watch 'em fight!