A lawyer representing the online message board 4chan says it won’t pay a proposed fine by the UK’s media regulator as it enforces the Online Safety Act.
According to Preston Byrne, managing partner of law firm Byrne & Storm, Ofcom has provisionally decided to impose a £20,000 fine “with daily penalties thereafter” for as long as the site fails to comply with its request.
“Ofcom’s notices create no legal obligations in the United States,” he told the BBC, adding he believed the regulator’s investigation was part of an “illegal campaign of harassment” against US tech firms.
As they should.
So it gets blocked in the UK, or the UK just continues to impose penalties on it that they can never collect? Article isn’t clear what noncompliance means.
The people running 4chan should probably not plan any trips to London any time soon, though. I don’t know if they can be arrested, but I wouldn’t want to find out.
No. Remember how we found out earlier that 4chan is run by the cia? They wont shut it down. Nobody’s getting arrested.
Didn’t hear that but it doesn’t surprise me it’s a honey pot or something.
Nah there reputation is already shit list, being responsible for the inbreds of the internet(hello) breeding pool would be the final nail in that coffin.
I don’t think anybody involved with running 4chan should go to a place that actually tries to enforce its hate crime laws considering the subject matter of the site.
Isn’t 4chan the cia? Doesnt that make them exempt?
