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Neocons were never that bright.

Salman Rushdie: First time?

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.

Pretty sure 4chan is Japanese owned now so I'm confused. I guess they still operate out of the USA. Idk. Currently owned by Hiroyuki Nishimura, who also owns 2channel. He acquired 4chan from Christopher Poole 2015. Good Smile Company is a major investor but he's still in charge.

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.

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

I see you never downloaded a car before.

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

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.

Yeah it's a stupid law and they were told it wouldn't work by industry experts. But the politicians that were in power when all this was first been decided were Conservatives and therefore arrogant and of the opinion that if they don't like something, it's realities responsibility to reconfigure itself.

Then Labour got in and for some reason implemented the stupid law anyway despite having heard none of the consultations, and of course now it turns out that the consultations told them not to do it. Now I'm sure the industry experts would have been ignored anyway but Labour look really daft now.

They have basically accepted that this law is unworkable and is basically going to be ignored by everyone, but they still have to go through all of the pantomime of trying to enforce it. I'm sure eventually they'll quietly kill it because the whole thing has been such an embarrassment for them.

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.

What used to be called The Great Firewall of China. It used to be unthinkable for western countries.

You can't blame this on old people. This is only happening now that the Boomers are on the way out. People who sent international letters or made international phone calls were aware that they were communicating with a different country with different laws. I think we are seeing this now, because now we have people who experience the internet as something happening on their own phone, at their location.

Blocking america as a whole would do the uk some good tbh

Fine the phone company for allowing calls they don't like.

hope they write their legal battle in green txt

“Block us then. We’re not paying your fines and you’ll never arrest us as we’ll never step foot in your country. Get fucked.” That’s about the response I’d have I think… attached with a photo of tubgirl or something for the classic lawls.