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- technology@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50937278
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.
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Ofcom is way out of line here, but this made me laugh.
[…] Ofcom is seeking to “control” the Internet, which is “predominantly an American innovation.” A lawyer for 4chan, Ronald Coleman, previously told the BBC that Ofcom’s enforcement of OSA threatened “the free speech rights of every American.”
How does something being invented in a specific country matter at all in this discussion? Lets apply that to another technology; “Cars are a predominantly German innovation, enforcement of speed limits threatens the speeding rights of every German.”
Lol internet a predominantly American innovation. World Wide Web is, by definition, well, world-wide (and while the earliest networks started in the US, WWW originates from CERN, a European, international organization).
Doesn’t matter, most of the Internet we use today belongs to some us companies: Google, YouTube, cloud service from Amazon, Microsoft or Google, social media, business software like office 365, databases, Apache, and so on.
You can put up a website in the US then anyone in the world can access it. You also can’t reliably determine where someone is from. These two constraints make it impossible to both conform to these ridiculous laws, and to properly enforce them.
The speed limit analogy doesn’t work because it is a physical law regulating physical actions. It would need to be a digital law governing ideas in order to properly compare. One is finite, the other is infinite.
I think the analogy works. The UK trying to fine 4chan in the US is like a country fining a German for driving at 250 kph in Germany on the Autobahn. The US lawyer claiming the Internet is an American invention and therefore their laws apply anywhere (at least I read it that way), is like a German speeding on a US road and claiming that German law allows them to do that.
I see, I misunderstood what you meant. Yes, the analogy certainly works.
4chan faces arrest? What is that even supposed to mean? Their ceo? The owners?
Who exactly is this “4chan”?
A hacker who wears a black ski mask and gloves when using the computer.
O tempora, o mores! 4chan has a lawyer!?! How could they fall this deep?
