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4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC (www.bbc.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [M] to c/europe@lemmy.ml
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A lawyer representing the online message board 4chan says it won't pay a proposed fine by the UK's media regulator as it enforces the Online Safety Act.

According to Preston Byrne, managing partner of law firm Byrne & Storm, Ofcom has provisionally decided to impose a £20,000 fine "with daily penalties thereafter" for as long as the site fails to comply with its request.

"Ofcom's notices create no legal obligations in the United States," he told the BBC, adding he believed the regulator's investigation was part of an "illegal campaign of harassment" against US tech firms.

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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

This goes both ways right? European sites don't have to follow US laws? Like dcma.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They never did they just dont have any backbone because its run by pussies.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Thing is that all credit card transactions are settled by US companies. Try running an online business without the ability to charge by card.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    China with WePay/AliPay enters the room

    If the one standard is really shitty, having more standards is not that bad after all. EU definitely have a big enough market to start their own payment processing standard.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Europe is working on that, in Spain we have Bizum and I'm sure there's equivalents in other European countries. We need to standardise it and make it work as seemlessly as contactless card pay. There's some places where you can do it pretty easily already, but it takes time.

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    • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I don’t think it’s unreasonable for them to say they aren’t subject to the laws of every country where their webpage is accessible. Besides being completely impossible to enforce, it’s not as though you can opt out of being available by default to every country that doesn’t have their own firewall. Sure seems like the people behind this regulation have no idea how the thing they’re trying to regulate works.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    4chan has a lawyer?

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    • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Okay, so, like, 99 times out of 100, fuck 4chan, but.

    In this specific case.

    ROW, ROW, FIGHT THE POWAH

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