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.

  • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Their payment processor is operating in the UK though. 4chan isn’t refusing money from UK residents. It is accepting their payments.

    • NiHaDuncan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      4Chan doesn’t have their own personal payment processor that they’re responsible for. They’re tied into processors like stripe and accept all payments that make it to them on the US side. So long as it is legal, which is typically the only way that a payment actually goes through as processors refuse the obviously illegal cases like encompassing embargoes. If the UK doesn’t want payments going to 4chan through a processor that operates in their country, it’s on them to stop the payment processor on their end.

      The UK knows this, the fines are just one step towards them petitioning processors.