Since March 2025, Ofcom has issued 11 fines, two of which have been paid, one is being appealed, and one is not yet overdue. That leaves nine fines unpaid.

Ofcom is not particularly concerned, since “what encourages me about the companies we fined is that they’ve actually done the things that we want to protect the public, and that is the real test of our implementation of the Act,” Dawes said.

Of the nine unpaid fines, two are “porn companies that have now implemented highly effective age assurance,” she continued.

Another four “have geo-blocked the UK. And so that’s three that are still available without the risks being mitigated out of the 11 services,” Dawes said, adding that of 41 investigations launched, “more than half have now been closed.”

One of the two that have paid is Itai Tech, which runs a “nudification” website. In March, LBC reported that the company paid £50,000, plus £5,000 for missing an information request.

At the time, Ofcom’s director of enforcement, Suzanne Cater, said, “We don’t measure success through fines and the amount we recover.”

But those who have not paid are not exactly being brought to heel either.

4chan was fined £520,000 in March 2026, and £800 a day thereafter. But 4chan has no staff, servers or money in the UK, and has not paid the fine.

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In September, a US federal court ruled that Ofcom has sovereign immunity from 4chan’s lawsuit, but also noted that American courts “are not necessarily required to enforce foreign penal judgments.”

Byrne wrote after the hearing, “Insofar as a political organization like Ofcom is even capable of admitting defeat, it did so in the 4chan enforcement today.”

“Unless Ofcom is prepared to sail a British invasion fleet here and land ground troops, enforcement would indeed have to proceed through American courts,” he continued. “Ofcom can’t enforce the Online Safety Act in America. Ofcom knows it, Ofcom has known it for a long time, and now, Ofcom has, finally, admitted it.”

Byrne also told the Guido Fawkes blog, “Come to an American court and get some. If you dare.”

But the part of the law that will work as intended is the one that will be “much more draconian” for Meta than its US settlement, according to Dawes.

She was responding to a question from Labour MP Chi Onwurah, who wanted to know if Meta would apply in the UK the changes it agreed to in a settlement in the US.

Dawes told Onwurah that “of course the social media ban for under 16s will be much more draconian...for Meta than anything that’s going to come out of the US settlement.”

The US settlement will see Meta age-check every Facebook and Instagram user in the states that signed it, cap teen accounts at two hours a day and cut them off from midnight to 6am.

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The comments were part of Thiel’s lecture series in Nashville, which Decoded has documented since their start this fall. In the latest lecture, Thiel issued extensive warnings about what he described as the unchecked power of the International Criminal Court, drawing on comments from Bush-era figures Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.

“I read the Cheney family’s Trump derangement syndrome as an attempt to buy favor with the [International Criminal Court] and avoid prosecution. Probably too late,” Thiel said. “And I have come to suspect that the threat of an ICC arrest warrant is the sword of Damocles hanging over the Trump administration as it tries to persecute this war in Iran.”

Thiel also discusses meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in early 2024, after the Oct. 7 attack, where he said he asked the leader about his plans in Gaza. Thiel said Netanyahu told him, “I can’t just Dresdenize it,” referring to the Allied bombing of the German city of Dresden during World War II that killed roughly 25,000 people.

The first big tech investor to back Trump in 2016, and then have a high-profile speaking role at the Republican National Convention that year, Thiel was also the biggest financial backer of super PACs supporting Vice President JD Vance’s Senate campaign in 2022. POLITICO reported in March that Vance was “skeptical” of the U.S. striking Iran in the lead-up to the beginning of the war.

Representatives for Thiel and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.

Thiel has finally identified Trump as the true antichrist. Just in time for the midterms too!

>>1544149
It's a given trump is the anti christ, but Thiel is still going to bankroll him for the midterms.

>>1544133
>You were calling Slotkin an elitist leftist two years ago anyway,
You know who I am?
>Rogers was closer to Slotkin in the polls on October 20th 2024 than he is against El-Sayed now
Incorrect. Slotkins October lead was ~3%. She won by 0.3%. El-Sayed currently leads by 2%. If the polling miss is the same as last time, Rogers wins.

>>1544141
>so they are going to vote for the party of high gas prices
Elections two weeks away. EV data is already coming out. No need to get more egg on your face than necessary.

>>1544141
I really don't see how someone can go from Trump to Abdul in 2 years

>>1544142
>>1544143
>Thinking trump betraying the west to Putin will lower prices significantly.
MAGA cope is really something.

>>1544143
The thing you have to understand is the median voter is mentally ill.

>>1544104
Literally can't understand anyone black still going to bat for the Republicans after they gave the OK to ICE racially profiling people. Like, what did she think would happen? They'd welcome her with open arms as being "one of the good ones"? They literally openly admit they want to deport/cubstomp every brown people they see and you think sucking up to them will save you?

>>1544131
I hope you're getting paid for this.

>>1544131
Every accusation is a confession, period
If you gay bashing, you're a homo.
If you're calling people ESL shills, you're probably not a native english speaker, and you're probably not making a regular income.
Every accusation is a confession from both sides, from all sides

>>1544135
>mum both sides
MLK was correct about the threat of the white moderate.

>>1544136
And Malcolm X was wrong about whitey.
He was too much of a radical.

>>1544132
i'm pretty sure he has a real job unlike you

If ESL shill wishes, deep down with all their retarded, faggot-filled heart, someone may care about their made up UK propaganda as much as they've been programmed to care about it.

You can't ASSume someone's gender without smelling shit in the process.

>>1544048
Its not racist to observe that one ethnicity is being replaced by another.

It's normal to observe that the so-called 'White Replacement' theory that the likes of 1544115 think is 'fact' like the retards they are, is complete lies & bullshit that never had the right to be listened to in the first place, and only deserves to be thrown in the trash along with inferior subhuman white rightards.
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/US
>White: 72.3%
>Black or African American: 13.5%
>Asian: 6.9%
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/uk-population-by-ethnicity/national-and-regional-populations/population-of-england-and-wales/latest/
>White: 81.7%
>Asian / Asian British: 9.3%
>Black / Black British: 4.0%
>the Refrom UK candidate coming 4th in a recent by-election behind the Conservatives, led by a black woman chosen by the Conservative Party's white 1922 Committee
>The British people are voting for Labour, led by PM Andy Basedham
Rightard liars, certainly white rightard liars, don't have the right to have opinions.

Don't care. This is what they get for colonizing every third world country.

>>1543881
Maybe wasting military resources on shit like this was not the smartest.

>>1543943
>Here we go again
On a journey through an unstable moron's personal delusion as he defends the actions of the worst president in US history by deflecting and leaving out half the relevant info, literally the only argument right wing retards have.

>Use your military for college sport game entertainment
That's fucking retarded. Even dying for Israel makes more sense that this.

>>1544066
Okay so give me the other half of the relevant info then.

no comically large mattress on the bottom? lame

Established in 2024, Sundial—where Mohammadi is a deputy editor and Ma a staff writer—sets out to “overcome echo chambers, and encourage healthy competition of ideas to strengthen campus discourse,” in its founder’s words.

“If we didn’t publish this, nobody on campus would have published anything remotely similar to this,” Mohammadi told me. As he and Ma observe in their piece, beyond the gates of college campuses, journalists and commentators have approached the Cornell story with a healthy skepticism. But such skepticism “was a little taboo on campus, and the point is it shouldn’t be taboo,” said Mohammadi.

After an internal discussion, Sundial’s editorial board signed off on Mohammadi and Ma’s essay. It went live on Tuesday, October 13, alongside another article offering an opposing viewpoint.

The blowback has been ferocious. Seventy posts condemning Sundial for publishing the piece were left on Sidechat, an anonymous posting board for college students. Ma told me that others had taken aim at her friends and friends’ family members simply for associating with her. Many, she said, “haven’t read the article. They’re responding to claims that we never made.” Of those who had read the piece, several “pulled quotes out of it” out of context, “in order to support their own opinion.”

The next day, the Columbia Open Discourse Alliance (CODA), established with the aim of sparking “bold conversations that challenge assumptions,” canceled an event entitled “Press Freedom and the Public Square,” at which Nick Baum, editor-in-chief of Sundial, was scheduled to speak. CODA issued a statement condemning Sundial for publishing a piece that “promotes rape culture.”

The Columbia Political Review—which regularly invoked the virtues of free speech to defend the campus anti-Israel protest movement—responded with a statement from its editorial board condemning “the Sundial’s decision to publish the article.” The editorial went to express its concern that “the Sundial allowed its authors to leave out what academic literature and lived experience show contribute to rape on college campuses: fraternities, insufficient disciplinary processes, and a resounding culture of silence and fear.”

Reactions like these suggest that assertions about a campus rape culture—covered extensively by City Journal’s Heather Mac Donald—cannot be challenged. Anyone who challenges the notion that campus rape is a widespread phenomenon, or that alleged victims must automatically be believed, supports and upholds “cultures and systems of rape, sexual assault, and violence,” in the words of Columbia Political Review.

Jonas Du, founder and former editor-in-chief of Sundial, believes the magazine’s decision to publish was the right one. “Nick Baum [the current editor] 100 percent made the right decision,” he told me. “It’s a gross mischaracterization to suggest the authors support ‘rape culture’—they make a good faith argument calling into question the narrative of a highly controversial case that’s very relevant to campus politics.”

“It’s their prerogative to publish that and a service to the Columbia community when you present an unpopular but well-argued viewpoint because that’s how we make progress on important issues,” Du added.

Despite the blowback, Mohammadi and Ma’s willingness to speak out helps challenge the illusion of consensus on the Cornell case and the broader issues it invokes. Mohammadi said that “ten to fifteen people” had reached out to him privately to tell him they agreed with the piece and to thank him for writing it. After the Columbia Spectator reported on the controversy, the majority of the comments on a linked Instagram post defended Sundial’s right to publish. “Nothing was said that was particularly controversial or unusual that would justify censure,” read one.

Mohammadi and Ma deserve praise for their willingness to express a reasoned argument in the face of a tide of unreasoned opposition they surely knew they would face. Despite the reaction of some to squelch an important debate, free speech is still flickering at Columbia.

>>1544042
Exactly, these people in France are protesting for the very thing that conservatives love to champion. The myth of proud conservatives fighting against a corrupt government that is stealing their money and not funding the services they promised.

This sort of protest against corrupt government overreach and corruption should be something that American conservatism is cheering on, but MAGA has poisoned conservative’s brains. Now they are pro big government and pro government control over the citizens. Conservatives are so fucking lost.

>>1544044
>This sort of protest against corrupt government overreach and corruption should be something that American conservatism is cheering on
Why? American Conservatism has built everything it claims to stand for up as a mere pretense for racism.

Using these protests to be racist is entirely par for the course. And since it's not a race riot by white people and/or a pogrom, naturally the way to do that is to attack the rioters.

To quote Lee Atwater, former RNC Chair
>Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger". By 1968, you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this", is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger".

Remember, Conservatism is about hurting the right people.

>Conservatism is about hurting the right people
>MAGAtards voted for that which is financially hurting them. they live in pods (trailers), eat bugs (food with red coloring), own nothing (because they sell their valuables just to afford the basics), and like it
>MAGA Republicans support that which is hurting them politically, especially after the midterms
In a way, that's correct. It's certainly hurting the right, who aren't people. Good

>>1544046
your skin color doesn't make you not a person, esl shill

>h-h-how dare you not think the same way as I do?! I-I-I know! I'll project by saying >>1544046 isn't white because he refuses to think the same way I do, and accuse him of being the esl shill!
You'll never be white, or people, 1544049. The white right will never be people, because they'll never be human.
>your skin color
>you not a person
>esl shill
Accusations are Admissions, 1544049.

Nothingburger

>>1543972
democrats proving yet again they're a party of rapists and hypocrites. but go on about how trump losing in civil court magically puts him on a sex registry and should be a federal indictment for election fraud you retard.
god you're low IQ and stupid

>>1543979
Trump is a felon because he falsified business records to use private money to pay a cornstarch hush money. That isn't illegal because it's immoral, it's illegal because it's fraud. It just also happens to be immoral. What is illegal about bdsm?

>>1544074
still a better choice then democrat terrorists who've been actively padding their wallets

>>1544074
So he should have used campaign funds instead?
Using peoples cash donations to pay hushmoney instead of private funds?
Is that how Bill did it?

>>1543796
The liggeral party is full of gays, as such, it's full of pedophiles because all gays are pedophiles. Faggotry is not genetic, it's the result of gay child rape. Joe Briben knows all about it. He gang raped so many little boys, it produced entire generations of little faggots, kind of like how Ghengis Khan raped so many women a non-insignificant part of eurasia can trace their lineage to him.

>>1543956
Aw esl-shill is trying to use the new term he just learned.
Incorrectly too.

>>1543968
Its hard for esl shill
Its not like there's any room for them in the world that Democrats are trying to make, no one wants retarded racist chuds ruining the country.
What are they going to do, stop being an antisocial schizo and professional victim?
MIGA is more than willing to tell them being racist is okay, their chuddiness and schizoid behavior is valid, and killing everything that makes America great is all they need.
They don't have the mental fortitude or character to improve themselves, so their only choice is to embrace the israeli propaganda and give up

1543956
See >>1543861
The ridiculous 1543956's wrong opinions deserve mockery. Founding Father Thomas Jefferson would approve.

>>1543974

>no one wants retarded racist chuds ruining the country.

All this time, you were brown? Jesus Christ, why fake it.

>however, >>1543974 was talking about the likes of 1544032, the projecting esl shill
All this time, you were brown 1544032. Jesus Christ, why fake it.

>>1544041
https://www.foxnews.com/media/hasan-piker-calls-hamas-far-more-moderate-dismisses-terror-group-brutal-rule-gaza
it takes 10mins to find links about his opinions all of which directly reference his actual livestream, the guy's openly defended hamas and if that wasn't bad enough if you look at a minute bit of his content he's actively misinforming his audience and trying to downplay everything they do.
> I'll wait.
no you won't you're a fucking misinformed loser whose going to cry and make excuses for him just like all the rest of his cult. The fact that you can't be bothered to do the bare amount of research and be this ill-informed shows that.
The fact we have a nepobaby whose preaching about socialism is bad enough him supporting terrorist propaganda, unning cover for them by pushing misinformation on top of that and fucking losers like you defending him is disgusting. You are a wretched human being if you donate to him and idc if you go into denial mode you're one of the reasons people will never vote democrat ever again

>I'm stucking
>stucking
1544054 committing terrorist acts against the English language hasn't even done the barest amount of learning at English classes, >>1544041
I'd say "I'll wait" for you to become highly educated 1544054 1544059, but you never will.
The fact /news/ has a manbaby preaching about rightism is bad enough, but running for cover after pushing misinformation on top of that and being a fucking loser - especially after the midterms - defending an orange terrorist is worse than disgusting. 1544059 is a wretched excuse for a human being if you so much as think of supporting anyone other than the Democrats. Everyone doesn't care about you, that which is in a certain river in Egypt about the soon to be proven fact that so many Americans - especially those who weren't Democrats previously - will never vote Republican again Elections after late 2025 made sure of that.
>unning cover
>unning
It takes mere seconds to prove that 1544059 is the esl shill that'll be running for cover when others point and laugh at the illiterate pissbaby that proves itself to be educationally inferior to all other human beings who are educated.

>>1544071
>democrats squealing and hissing about ESL when they have no comeback and get evidence thrown in their face that they're direct terrorist supporters

>politician does drugs and prostitutes
Next you gonna tell me police kill people.

>projecting esl shill 1544075 squealing and hissing because it has no comeback when evidence of it being esl and a terrorist against the English language, and reduced to deflecting against democrats in a thread about Republicans committing sex crimes and there's plenty of evidence of their perverted terrorism

>>1543590
ship democrats over there to be martyrs we don't want em here

>>1543875
>over there
esl shill...

>>1543876
esl shill just wants democrats to fix their country since MIGA doesn't want them
but shilly esl will need to fix their own fucked up country

Will the real ESL shill please stand up?
I keep hearing about you, but I never hear from you

>>1543875
>>1543876
Delhi isn't part of America
It would be shipping them over there