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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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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 hours ago

4chan can be the first website blocked by the great firewalls of British cooking. potatoes and boiled cocks. not bad if im honest

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago

they don't have that kind of money they can't pay that shit are you nuts

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Offcom has been drinking, came home in a blackout and committed domestic abuse of 4chan. Does Offcom even internet? Alternative plot twist, Offcom is trolling 4chan.

I wanna say that Offcom is doing a good job and trying to protect British people in good faith but I feel like they are being used as a cudgel by the British ruling class to advance an anachronistic agenda. Don't forget, they fired their expert drugs advisor for telling them that MDMA is comparable to horse riding in terms of safety. They want certain things to be true, regardless of the scientific accuracy.

[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Non-British here. There’s a telecom company that called itself “OFFcom”?

[–] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It's Ofcom, the Office of Communications. Not sure how they managed to get it wrong 4 times.

[–] nuxi@lemmy.world 32 points 12 hours ago

4chan's actual legal response to this can be summarized as "We are incorporated in Delaware which has not been subject to UK law since 1783. See the Treaty of Paris".

[–] Balldowern@lemmy.zip 10 points 10 hours ago

Should Ofcom be labelled as a terrorist organisation ?

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 26 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

This censorship shit is out of control.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 3 points 6 hours ago

Damn fucking straight. I hope it starts an privacy movement so big they realize that all the laws passed since 2000 against terrorism were abject failures and repeal all of them.

Canada is trying to pass major surveillance shit on par with the patriot act on steroids and effectively nullify the need for warrants, all in the name of 'strong borders' and anti terrorism even though it literally gives many US owned and operated companies full and complete access to digital information on Canadians, ironically weakening borders in every way.

And for what? What is the terrorism threat? Al-Qaeda was a always a joke, and the fact that 9/11 happened was far more due to a monumental failure of all intelligence services combined and not due to a lack of resources. Terrorist schemes have been thwarted in the past without the need for extensive surveillance... and most plots are still thwarted primarily by informants and insiders speaking to authorities. The whole 'we need to be super proactive ' has yielded shit results.

Most of the stuff that they claim was 'prevented proactively ' was literally entrapment. They found some mentally ill and/or lonely people who would have done nothing on their own, but ended up being goaded into stupid crap when undercover agents flirted with them, encouraged them, and even offered weapons and explosives for them to use, and if they agreed... well, that's when they nabbed them. No terrorism would have occurred if agents didn't do shit.

Have you ever wondered why so many people are highly distrustful of people talking about doing violent shit? Fed posting? Its because agents have such a long ass history of doing that that you cannot tell who is and who isn't a Fed.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago

Will the notorious hacker known as 4chan finally get his comeuppance?

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 108 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

British government fines an American company, based in America, for serving data from American servers that was compliant with American law.

This whole law is complete overreach. It's like banning a book and then getting mad at the author when one of your citizens buys one on holiday and brings it back with them

[–] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 hours ago

Neocons were never that bright.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago

Salman Rushdie: First time?

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think Iran should fine the UK just as much for allowing the Satanic verses to be sold since that novel are banned in Iran.

Any argument they give is the same argument why the 4chan shit is laughable.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

4chan also faces potential arrest and/or "imprisonment for a term of up to two years," the lawsuit said.

I wanna see how a website would be sent to jail.

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They could go after the owner. I believe he lives in Japan, all the UK has to do is send an extradition request to the Japanese government, bing bang boom all done.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 3 points 7 hours ago

Which they would laugh at. Even the Chinese government would laugh at such a request. It isn't something that is considered universally a crime, like robbery and murder, but the type of shit they are asking for is so fucking unprecedented and unreasonable it's stupid.

It would be like if the UK demanded that France immediately extradite all legal handgun owners in France (where handguns are legal) because it is a crime to possess one in Great Britain and therefore they are criminals. Makes no sense.

[–] biggeoff@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Clearly they're after the notorious hacker known as 4chan

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 7 points 23 hours ago

All 4 of them face charges.

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 10 points 23 hours ago

I see you never downloaded a car before.

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So then.... Potential arrest and imprisonment for 4chan for no proven damage. Meanwhile, Trump can visit the King.

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Potential arrest and imprisonment for failing to pay the fine, you mean? That would be a proven damage, wouldn't it?

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 119 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (29 children)

This is a case of stupid laws that still don't understand the internet (35+ years in to wide use, mofos)

If an http GET request initiated from country A traverses routers and wires around the globe to grab some data from a server in country B, then we have to accept that the owners of the server are not "operating in country A" and in fact the user in country A is responsible for import.

If some laws in country A have a problem with this, then they should unplug their internet wires at the border, or at least learn how to use them and/or govern their citizens.

All that is tongue in cheek to say they can fuck right off.

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[–] Ultraword@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago

The global push for censorship is accelerating and not nearly enough people are woke to it.

[–] Gemini24601@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Is it even possible for Ofcom to legally fine 4chan for these issues? How does a company in the UK fine a US company?

[–] WALLACE@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day ago (6 children)

It works the same way they can fine domestic businesses: Pay up or we'll stop you from doing any more business in this country.

In the context of a website like 4chan that means pay the fine or get blocked by every UK based ISP.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 18 points 1 day ago

I don't think that would deter any of their user base.

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[–] nevemsenki@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago (21 children)

If you're ok with this then imagine your local lemmy instance getting fined by China/Qatar/Thailand/etc for posting something breaking their laws.

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They have no way of making them pay.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 159 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Imagine running a website for 20 years, changing absolutely nothing, and one day you're being targeted because someone else on the other side of the planet changed something at their end.

Tell them to piss off.

They'll come after your phpbb instance next.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

4chan is likely using this to take it to the courts.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

hope they write their legal battle in green txt

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

be me

American't social mediatard

Britbongs demand money

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