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4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law (www.404media.co)
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4chan and Kiwi Farms sued the United Kingdom’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) over its age verification law in U.S. federal court Wednesday, fulfilling a promise it announced on August 23. In the lawsuit, 4chan and Kiwi Farms claim that threats and fines they have received from Ofcom “constitute foreign judgments that would restrict speech under U.S. law.”

Both entities say in the lawsuit that they are wholly based in the U.S. and that they do not have any operations in the United Kingdom and are therefore not subject to local laws. Ofcom’s attempts to fine and block 4chan and Kiwi Farms, and the lawsuit against Ofcom, highlight the messiness involved with trying to restrict access to specific websites or to force companies to comply with age verification laws.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

No more cum filled doughnuts. Understood.

but it's not a fundamental departure from what we already do and have done for a long time.

Then I don't understand why we don't continue to do this then? The UK doesn't like 4chan, ask them to kindly change their ways, upon refusal, block them. Same with Facebook.

Instead they're attempting to fine them where they have no jurisdiction to fine them. They don't want to start mass blocking sites because it makes them look like China. The law is dumb and ill thought out and unnecessary.

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