There are already a lot of products and services created to block adult material. Instead of wasting millions of dollars and thousands of hours of human power, they could've made a law to opt-in to these services at the service provider level.
For example, in this situation, nearly all blocking services would block 4chan.
Weird idea: what if the government set up a system where the website will be blocked unless you verify your age with gov.uk? And anyone trying to get to it will have to pass by gov.uk tokens first. Although https might make that difficult.
Of course, I fully disagree with the OSA. But it's... An alternative.
then ban 4chan in the uk. nothing of value would be lost.
In this case; the UK is reaching too far. Genuinely speaking; they don't have the right to fine you if you don't live or operate in that country. 4chan never did have any legal presence in the UK; even if it did accept 'donations' from UK citizens.
At worst; the UK can block 4chan from being accessed in their country and seize any money sent to 4chan by their citizenry in the future. I doubt anyone would care if that's what they did.
The US specifically even states in it's constitution that no citizen shall have laws imposed on them by another country that restrict their freedoms.
As always, 4chan good guys
Protecting children by making 4chan the one of the only sites not blocked in the uk. Good job guys 👍
very reminiscent of the pirate bays response to the u.s. ..just missing the retractable baton clause...
kinda funny its goin the other direction now
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