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submitted 7 hours ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/technology@beehaw.org

The online message board's lawyers say that UK safety laws don't apply outside the UK. This basic principle may soon be tested in court.

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[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 24 points 6 hours ago

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.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 16 points 5 hours ago

They tried that. Don't underestimate the progress already made towards building the Great Firewall of Britain. I guess the main problem was that when the blocking was optional, too many people chose to opt out.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 4 hours ago

Wow so many people disagreed that it flipped. Almost like people don't want it

[-] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 5 points 3 hours ago

Yea, but don’t you see, wee need to protect the kids.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 3 hours ago

right right right, you're right, please take away my privacy to help parents not need to parent their children!!!

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 2 points 4 hours ago

First off thank you for the info. Second what comes next is not directed towards you.

SO WHAT THE FUCK IS THE FUCKING PROBLEM THEN?!

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

then ban 4chan in the uk. nothing of value would be lost.

[-] icelimit@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 hours ago

How does one ban a website within a geographical border? Isn't that censorship?

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 10 points 5 hours ago

Ip blocking at state ran/sponsored networking level. But censorship is the point of the age verification law so that would be their end goal.

[-] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago

The first part is a technical question and the second part a definition one.

For the how to: the most common approach is to simply blacklist their IPs on a provider basis. This leads to no provider that obeys your blacklists to allow their users traffic to that target. Usually all providers in a nation obey that nations law (I assume, I only know that for my own :D)

For the censorship: I don't like that word because it's implications fan be used against any and all laws. A shitload of content is made inaccessible because it breaks laws from active coordination of attacks to human trafficking. All of this can be described as censorship.

Forthe UK law it's... I'm not British and to me it appears to be a vague tool to silence and control all types of content under the guise of protecting children. Not with the intention to protect or prevent something but with the intent to control. I would fully understand and emphasize with using the word censorship in this context.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 0 points 5 hours ago

4chan has been all too eager to spread Russian propaganda for over a decade, and has been a festering sore on the internet even longer still. I wouldn't let the paradox of tolerance bind us to 4chan of all places. OP is right, nothing of value would be lost.

[-] iii@mander.xyz -1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

As always, 4chan good guys

this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2025
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