Comment on 4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How does one ban a website within a geographical border? Isn’t that censorship?

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  • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ip blocking at state ran/sponsored networking level. But censorship is the point of the age verification law so that would be their end goal.

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  • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The first part is a technical question and the second part a definition one.

    For the how to: the most common approach is to simply blacklist their IPs on a provider basis. This leads to no provider that obeys your blacklists to allow their users traffic to that target. Usually all providers in a nation obey that nations law (I assume, I only know that for my own :D)

    For the censorship: I don’t like that word because it’s implications fan be used against any and all laws. A shitload of content is made inaccessible because it breaks laws from active coordination of attacks to human trafficking. All of this can be described as censorship.

    Forthe UK law it’s… I’m not British and to me it appears to be a vague tool to silence and control all types of content under the guise of protecting children. Not with the intention to protect or prevent something but with the intent to control. I would fully understand and emphasize with using the word censorship in this context.

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  • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    4chan has been all too eager to spread Russian propaganda for over a decade, and has been a festering sore on the internet even longer still. I wouldn't let the paradox of tolerance bind us to 4chan of all places. OP is right, nothing of value would be lost.

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    • TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Banning 4chan for that reason would be valid if they had a law against that to enforce.

      But in the same way you don’t go after someone for tax evasion in a country they’ve never been to or interacted with, you don’t fine 4chan because they won’t start collecting IDs from users when the company is not even in your jurisdiction.

      Either way, I can’t imagine people there missing 4chan. They just need to give a valid reason to block it instead of BSing a fine.

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