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Comment on 4chan is getting fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts.

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

~2006: haha can you believe it? China and Thailand and other such countries are blocking sites like Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc. because there’s stuff on there that their governments don’t like, how awfully authoritarian of them to think that their laws apply to everyone in the world, we liberal democracies in the west are a lot better than that fortunately

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JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I get that the joke is that “look at what’s happening now” but it can also be interpreted as the government censoring the rest of your post. Very lenticular!

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Microw@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The difference is that the UK is not blocking sites. Sites are blocking the UK.

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- schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  In the particular story that this thread is about, neither is happening: the UK is fining a site. I admit that it’s not exactly the same thing; the point is that it’s the same concept of national governments believing they have any business at all enforcing their laws on foreign websites.
  
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