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.

  • Szewek@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    10·
    18 hours ago

    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).

    • GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      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.