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herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 13 days ago

The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies

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The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies

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herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 13 days ago
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Ofcom — driven by the letter of British law that they are bound to follow, but still Ofcom — are quietly making Britain look (a) very silly and (b) as if we haven’t yet shucked-off the Americ…
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    uk just needs to ban 4chan at the dns level and do humanity a favor

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      Wouldn’t that just be doing VPN sellers a favor?

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      Yeah, that worked great when the UK and others tried it with thepiratebay

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      How?

      Reddit, Lemmy and Discord the bad actors now, people here are the ones calling for ‘raids’ on websites, to dox people, to ruins anonymous internet users lives.

      4chan is tame by comparison.

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      Türkish guy here: we’ve had DNS-level bans for more than 15 years. They are very easy to work around.

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