You REALLY don’t know what you are talking about, do you?

No, sweetie. USians are shocked to find out laws apply to them. Difficult concept, I know.

Found a USian.

You USians are funny, you really believe you are exceptional and your shitty companies are above the law.

EU and EU countries proved you wrong multiple times when they fined your big tech. This time it will be no different.

It is quite simple really - 4chan will either pay and comply or be blocked in the UK, lose all the revenue from UK traffic and be constantly on guard where their financial assets are as these will be seized if handled by UK bank.

The idiots didn’t have their own eco chamber. As an unfortunate byproduct of the social media they realised how many of them there are and organised themselves.

If you have users and derive income from a country, you are operating in this country. This is not a difficult concept as tech giants found out after EU fined multiple of them.

4Chan does neither

Which word from what I said caused you trouble?

EU fined number of tech giants before, this is not new. If you have users and derive income from a country, you are operating in this country.

Fuck that. People spreading racial hate and public lies with the intention to mislead the public should be locked up.

It is not a great piece of legislation but the statements from 4chan are hysterical 😂

4chan will probably end up paying the fine and engaging immediately when it is blocked in the UK as it will result in their top line getting hit. There is also an option of seizing the assets belonging to the company (not necessarily just in the the UK although probably not in the USA). You are deluded if you think otherwise.

It will end up the same as tech giants fines. They will shout, moan and pay.

I especially like this hysterical statement:

The statement added the US federal authorities had been “briefed” on the matter, adding that the Ofcom investigation was part of an “illegal campaign of harassment against American technology firms”.

😂😂😂

UK can get fucking bent. Come and take it.

I assure you this is what will happen. If 4chan won’t pay the fine, they will be blocked in the UK by the Internet service providers (as this is the next step in the process). They will then see that non compliance with Ofcom decision is significantly more expensive than compliance.

Does the UK think they have jurisdiction over my server just because some twat from the UK visits my site?

Yes. You are providing services to the UK users and deriving income from these services.

If so, there’s a reason why we fought a war nearly 250 years ago

Get used to it. Apple get fined by the EU multiple times, Microsoft and Google also, from memory, lost some cases in the EU despite lack of physical presence.

Their income is derived from the UK users. They can either block the UK traffic (which they don’t want as it would mean less money) or engage with the regulator regarding risk of illegal content they have been fined for:

The controversial online forum 4chan risks being blocked in the UK after refusing to pay a fine from Ofcom for breaking [rules set by the Online Safety Act]).

The website, which hosts adult content, was handed a £20,000 for failing to share information about the risk of illegal content on its platform.

Media watchdog Ofcom said action would be taken against companies that “flagrantly fails to engage with Ofcom and their duties under the Online Safety Act”.

The part where they have any infrastructure, operations, revenue, or presence at all in the UK.

Do you understand how the Internet works? You don’t have to have an infrastructure in a country to be present there.

USians need to get used to following the law. Shocking, I know.

Read again than.

The fucking US idiot writing this blog is surprised that 4chan must follow UK law while having customers/users in the UK.

Which part is not applicable?

… And?

USians are surprised that they must follow the foreign law if they do business (generate income) outside of the USA.

And the guy writing this blog is a fucking utter idiot.