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US messageboard 4Chan mocks £520,000 fine for UK online safety breaches
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c624330lg1ko
The UK online safety regulator Ofcom has fined the US messaging platform 4Chan a total of £520,000 for failing to comply with various aspects of the Online Safety Act.
It includes £450,000 for failing to put in age checks to prevent children from seeing pornography on the platform.
However, a lawyer representing the company - which has previously said it won't pay such fines - has responded to the demand with an AI-generated cartoon image of a hamster.
Is LET in danger of being fined?
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Cheese rules.
- Do hamsters like cheese?16 votes
- no18.75%
- NO81.25%
Comments
LOL. Remember that META/facebook is the one behind all of this BS.
Let's see whether they will came to CF
maybe let moderators needs to moderate a bit more on adult content.
The UK deserves to be mocked.. Just look at today's news.. Abortion on the day of birth is approved. No matter what your views on abortion are most would agree that having one on the day you're set to give birth is a little messed up.
British House of Lords Approves UP TO BIRTH Abortions To Become Law, as the Culture of Death Takes Over the UK .. from thegatewaypundit.com
It's almost like we owe it to poor people of the UK to draw attention and ridicule them, They think they can control the internet in the west through laws they make at home. Next week they will be closing down your US company because someone made fun of the king and his pedo brother on a new york VPS.
thats so sick. dude. i thought UK was based on the christian believe system. Apparently not anymore.
Technically, capital punishment is outlawed in UK. So does killing a person. I wonder what's their defense? Is it because of bad life prospect?
4chan = weird site + weird people
just to me, sorry
It's really to decriminalize the rare cases of abortion past 24 weeks. There's generally little appetite for prosecutors and juries to go after mothers who likely went through the worst health issue of their life and highly traumatized. If a mother was truly fucked in the head and had bad intent, there's already laws and prosecutions for this.
classic internet culture meeting regulator reality. you can't fine a meme into compliance. the uk learned what every mod learns eventually - sometimes the best response is just watching the chaos unfold.