4chan fine may test if US will intervene to block UK’s Online Safety Act.

If 4chan continues to ignore Ofcom, the forum could be blocked in the UK. And 4chan could face even bigger fines totaling about $23 million or 10 percent of 4chan’s worldwide turnover, whichever is higher. 4chan also faces potential arrest and/or “imprisonment for a term of up to two years,” the lawsuit said.

  • troed@fedia.io
    34·
    14 hours ago

    Isn’t it people in the UK that go to a US company and do business there?

    • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Not with the internet. 4chan uses a payment processor that allows UK residents to pay with UK currency.

          • troed@fedia.io
            1·
            2 hours ago

            “allow”

            Seems to me as if the people in the UK sign up with an american company.

            • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              4chan has not disabled accepting payments from UK residents through their Coinbase portal. Therefore they are allowing UK residents to pay them.

              4chan is not geo blocking UK visitors in their Cloudflare portal, so they are allowing UK residents to visit their site.

              4chan wants all the benefits of UK business without obeying their laws.

              • troed@fedia.io
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                38 minutes ago

                4chan isn’t in the UK and has no reason to figure out what laws apply there.

                When you made this post, did you first check which countries your post ended up in?