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

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.

  • survirtual@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    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.

    • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      18 hours ago

      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.