Ofcom to fine 4Chan
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They are arguably obliged to follow the laws of our country if they want their website available in this country. It’s a whole weird thing with the Internet, in that it’s everywhere and nowhere. 4chan might be run by Americans and hosted in god knows where and mirrored on umpteen servers and accessed in the UK. So whose laws should it be following?
There’s also an argument that if the UK government doesn’t want it here, they should just block it, but that’s kinda extreme and sinister and tens to end in a great firewall of China kind of a way.
Hilariously it's actually worse than just that.
People have been using character creation in some games to get past the "photo-verification" process. I'm sure they'll resolve that at some point, and VPN's will be next on the dystopian list. Banning kids from owning smart phones and limiting them to dumb devices would go ten times further than the ridiculous act they've implemented, with a mixture of consequences for the parents themselves to boot.
When I was a teen kids skipped school a hell of a lot, I did it myself. They implemented parental accountability with fines, kids started skipping school a whole lot less. Our Government has a track record of actively not protecting children, backdooring "internet safety for the kids" is ridiculous, as is heavy handed policing of whatever content they don't want people to see via agencies like Ofcom.
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Ofcom/UK can't regulate them in the same way they can't regulate a French TV channel if you manage to pick it up on your TV. Australia tried this nonsense a while ago by trying to remove a video from the internet and were shocked to learn other websites don't have to follow their laws.
The UK can ban it, and that really is their only option since 4chan has called their bluff, but people can just use a VPN anyway.