https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c624330lg1koThe 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.In a follow-up post on X, 4Chan's lawyer Preston Byrne wrote: "In the only country in which 4chan operates, the United States, it is breaking no law and indeed its conduct is expressly protected by the First Amendment."The fines also include £50,000 for failing to assess the risk of illegal material being published and a further £20,000 for failing to set out how it protects users from criminal content.4Chan has refused to pay all previous fines from Ofcom.Ofcom responded to the BBC's request for a reply to Byrne's posts with a statement from Suzanne Cater, its director of enforcement."Companies – wherever they're based – are not allowed to sell unsafe toys to children in the UK. And society has long protected youngsters from things like alcohol, smoking and gambling. The digital world should be no different," she said."The UK is setting new standards for online safety. Age checks and risk assessments are cornerstones of our laws, and we'll take robust enforcement action against firms that fall short."She did not comment on the image 4Chan had published in response to the fine.
>>1498730In February 2025 Vice President JD Vance told an audience of world leaders at the AI Summit in Paris that the administration was "growing tired" of foreign countries attempting to regulate its tech businesses.4chan is known to be an anarchic messaging space, and has often been at the heart of online controversies since it launched 22 years ago.Ofcom has issued nearly £3m in fines to tech companies around the world for breaches of the UK's online safety laws.However most of this money has not yet been received.Ofcom says one company called Itai Tech, which runs a nudification site, paid its fines of £50,000 and £5,000, and blocked UK users from its service, while two other firms added age verification.It added that other fines were still within their timeframe to be paid, and it was "considering next steps" for those who had missed payment deadlines.In December the regulator told the BBC it had never heard from a company running 18 porn sites, which it had fined £1m, although the company did later add age verification to its platforms.Last month Pornhub restricted access to its website in the UK, blaming the introduction of stricter age checks, and said its traffic had fallen by 77%.
>77% of pornhub users are underage no surprise there
>>1498736more like>only 3/4s of Pornhub's userbase were smart enough to not surrender their IDs
I don’t like pornhub hopefully they go bankrupt
>>1498730It's straight up unreasonable to demand that a private site should hold sensitive documents like government-issued ID.
>>1498730Good luck sending it to the big orange retard for collections
>>1498730So just block britbongs from the site and tell the UK gov to fuck off.
>>1498743site's official policy is that they're not going to do ANYTHING on the server, even a simple geoblock with the help of Cuckflareeffectively they ask Brits to ban 4chan in Britain, which Ofcom are very hesitant from doing because 4chan is their "example case" that they really want to use to scare other sites
>>1498730It's simple. We ban the bong.
>>1498744>>1498743Fwiw didn’t a site already do that and didn’t the Brits just use a VPN to access it and say “SEE! IT’S STILL ACCESSIBLE!”?
>>1498750>didn’t a site already do that and didn’t the Brits just use a VPN to access it and say “SEE! IT’S STILL ACCESSIBLE!”?yep, that's Sanctioned Suicidespecifically Ofcom were okay with geoblock before (((parent interest groups))) asked them to finally stop the "evil self-harm forum"
THIS SITE IS SO DEADITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
Parents need to take responsibility for their own children
>>1498764>implying it's about children and not controllollmao
I was a normal WASP British 14 yr old school boy when I discovered this website. Now I'm a 20 yr old WOMAN with swastika tattoos, and a collection of illegal firearms.
>>1498780>illegal>firearms?
>>1498764That would mean parents would have to empower themselves. That wouldn't benefit the agenda.
>>1498797This is anecdotal, in Britain in the late 19th century when the government was trying to implement free public education the strongest opposition to it was from the working classes who argued that they didn’t want to allow the government a free hand in raising their children
>>1498804sounds like a right position to takeespecially with modern public schools being racial jungles
>>1498805Broadly it’s about taking responsibility and having authority over your own children rather than delegating them to the state. It’s a matter of individual rights versus states rights and the family unit versus the populi
>>1498805The problem with you is you claim you support individual freedom but you really support state mandated belief systems. You only want to replace a perceived injustice with another injustice of your own design
>>1498804>the strongest opposition to it was from the working classes who argued that they didn’t want to allow the government a free hand in raising their children$20 this was an opinion you can trace back to the private schooling industry.
>>1498809don't put words in my mouth
>>1498810You'll be never be american
>>1498811I gleaned it from your reference in support of apartheid. You’re probably a Zionist. I apologize if I’m wrong
>>1498810Good call
>>1498822>I gleaned it from your reference in support of apartheid?>You’re probably a Zionist???
>>1498764The government doesn't need to subpoena age verification records from children.
>>1498842Best solution is ban children from the internet
>>1498844By making all the adults give over their ID so that the government can demand to see them in association with any account or post at any time to "prove it isn't a child"? Brilliant!
say goodbye to anonymous
>>1498753It's only the Pak- I mean Bongs. No one gives a shit about them.
>>1498730Oh shit they're going yo block the euros.and by "oh shit" I mean. good. Those tards voted themselves into progressive totalitarianism.
>>1498912Invest in vpn stocks I guess
>>1498912Coming from the tard who voted in authoritarian totalitarianism. Don't you think for a god damn second this won't happen here too, or that it's limited to any one political party. Everyone wants control.
>>1498966The American president is allowed to bomb whoever he wants to its our culture you're being very intolerant right now
If Brits and Euros get blocked, 4chan might actually die. Rapeape on his Twitter already said that he has a hard time funding this site. Imagine what would happen if that percentage of users just disappeared suddenly overnight.. Not a good look. Hopefully this site has some way to bypass any blocks that might happen. Maybe a url that changes constantly so that people can still access the site? I don't know.
>>14989714chan.org/pass
>>1498974Nobaldis buying that
>>1498975skill issue
>>1498971...shit, I didn't even think of that.
>>1498971blocking 4chan wouldn't be possible without going against cloudflareRussian government did partially block CF and it just killed 2/3 of the Internet trying to regulate CF would just push more people to other options (DDoS-Guard, bunny.net, Null's Tartarus and so worth), making the Internet (once again) decentralized while also impossible to censor
>>1498730>>It includes £450,000 for failing to put in age checks to prevent children from seeing pornography on the platform.Ah, the UK: the country that gave us Shakespeare’s sonnets, the smog of the Industrial Revolution, and a regulatory system with the observational skills of a raisin left in the sun far too long.It is a special kind of "Great" Britain that remains stuck in a Victorian fever dream. clinging to Kings, Queens, and Princesses like Larping like the fur trade is still alive and well. But let’s be real, the only thing "royal" about that family is their ability to avoid a deposition. You’re telling us the King fell in love with a 16-year-old, they didn't speak for three years, and we’re just supposed to buy that as a "fairytale"? I believe that about as much as I believe Prince Andrew was just there for the "geography" on a certain private island.Only in the UK would you find a regulatory body so braindead that it slaps a massive fine on a website for not having an age gate... after the site has existed for over twenty years and clearly has the gate. At this point, the obsession with "online safety" feels less like protection and more like projection. It’s peak British bureaucracy: they’re so desperate to look like they’re "protecting the children" from a 18+ button on a screen that they’ll ignore the literal skeletons in the Palace closets. It’s hard to take a moral lecture on "age verification" from a government that still bows to a family with that track record.The UK isn't a country anymore; it’s a high-budget historical reenactment that’s gone on for far too long. They are out here LARPing like it’s 1899, desperately trying to keep the Victorian dream alive while the plumbing is leaking and the Wi-Fi is down.
>>1499000It’s a special kind of delusion to maintain a House of Lords and a literal throne while your economy has the structural integrity of a wet biscuit. You’ve got a government that thinks "innovation" is finding a slightly more ornate way to say "No" to the 21st century.They love to talk about their "multiculturalism" like it’s a choice they made out of the goodness of their hearts. Please. Your demographics are just a living receipt for 300 years of colonial theft.You didn't "invite" people in; you’re just dealing with the diaspora of millions of Indians expelled from sugar plantations in South Africa and the fallout of the East India Company strip-mining the Global South. You don't get to act like a "bleeding heart" benefactor now just because the people you exploited moved into the neighborhood. You act like every government action is for the "good of the people," but the reality is you’re just a digital protection racket in a fancy hat.The UK is essentially a Victorian museum trying to regulate a SpaceX launch. They’ve managed to create a society where:The Economy: Is in the bin.The Infrastructure: Is crumbling.The Solution: Fine a random website millions of pounds because a regulator named Nigel forgot how to scroll down.They’ll ignore the systemic fallout of their own history, but God forbid a website’s age-verification isn’t written in 12-point Times New Roman with a signed affidavit from the Archbishop of Canterbury.
>>1499001your posts reads like a copypasta but>House of LordsI'm pretty sure they just ended it, lol
>>1498730>it's not just forcing people to audit ALL of their data through their algorithms and data systems for the sake of profit
>>1499001Protip: it's all Chinese/Russian subversion and espionage. They like to use Jews as a proxy now too and people buy it, especially the Jews. They love thinking they have all the power, it feeds their naive hubris.
>>1499008>could it be that the Brits are retarded and can't run their country properly>nah! It's the Chinese and Russian bots fault
>>1498730>the US messaging platform 4ChanThis is false.
None of you are anonymous anyways
too much text, didnt readt: finnish guy
>>1499046>he doesn't use generals as public chatroomswhat the fuck are you even doing on 4chan, faggot?
>>1499052>None of you are anonymousMy name field clearly says "Anonymous"
What the fuck report that post for doxxing me how did it write my name. I'm just a gay black jewish man trying to make it in the world this is too much
>>1499065What are you doing?
>>1499000>>1499001Holy fucking truth nuke
>>1498730>a lawyer representing the companyWhat's the company who owns 4chan? I'd like to see the registration detail.
>>14994014chan Community Support, LLCregistered in Delaware, although it's currently moving to Wyoming
>>1498730>And society has long protected youngsters from things like alcohol, smoking and gambling. The digital world should be no differentThere's no kids version of alcohol, smoking or gambling. Why should kids internet exist? They shouldn't have internet access at all
>>1500027>There's no kids version of alcohol, smoking or gamblinganon there are coke, vapes and gacha
>>1500027>no kid gamblingYeah, just remember to sign in daily for your free gacha pulls. That SSS++ is just [number of spins you get for free +2] pulls away! Enter the three funny numbers on the back of your mom's debit card for 500 more chances!
>>1500000
>>1499000Governments are just businesses. They're there to make money.
