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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".
Lawyers for 4chan described the fine, which is the first to be handed down under the new regulation, as “risible” and “stupid”.
4chan, which has been referred to as the “cesspit of the internet”, has previously been blamed for radicalising young men, while also being linked to mass shootings.
It is also the founding place of the online hacking collective Anonymous, and the birthplace of some of the internet’s most popular memes, such as Pepe the Frog and Rickrolling.
Websites that fail to comply with the Online Safety Act face financial penalties of up to £18 million, or 10 per cent of worldwide turnover. If these are ignored, courts could require internet service providers to block access to the site.
“Today sends a clear message that any service which flagrantly fails to engage with Ofcom and their duties under the Online Safety Act can expect to face robust enforcement action,” said Suzanne Cater, Director of Enforcement at Ofcom.
“We're also seeing some services take steps to introduce improved safety measures as a direct result of our enforcement action. Services who choose to restrict access rather than protect UK users remain on our watchlist as we continue to monitor their availability to UK users.”
The rules came into force in July, aimed at protecting children from harmful content. They require sites hosting adult material to perform robust age verification checks, such as requesting government-approved photo ID, checking credit card information, or using facial age estimation technology.
4chan has 60 days to provide the information requested by Ofcom, with an additional fine of £100 added for each day that it is ignored.
The site has filed its own lawsuit against Ofcom, accusing the regulator of overreaching its legal authority by applying UK laws to companies based in other jurisdictions.
“That Americans don’t obey British censors is a matter of settled US law,” Preston Byrne, managing partner of law firm Byrne & Storm, which represents 4chan, told The Telegraph.
“Maybe instead of sending my clients stupid letters, they should think about answering the lawsuit we filed against them in DC federal court.”
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said in a statement: "Services can no longer ignore illegal content, like encouraging self-harm or suicide, circulating online which can devastate young lives and leave families shattered.
"This fine is a clear warning to those who fail to remove illegal content or protect children from harmful material.”
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Maggie Thatcher has fallen
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They should ban the sharty so quote can be replaced o algo
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This is bad because then british jakkas are gonna get 'aped next
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>>17539Nigga this the beginning of the great replacement of us white people on this site
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Whatever will they do without little India? I bet the problem wouldn't be as severe if porn wasn't everywhere on 4chan. 4chan isn't really supportable because it's that loser that listens to porn loudly, in public, and starts talking about porn nonstop, and his favela slum apartment smells awful and is full of porn magazines in the open. It doesn't matter if he tells you the sky is blue once in a blue moon, he's still a total degenerate retard and should be sacrificed to be used as an argument point for yourself later. Let 4chan become the sacrificial lamb/martyr.
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it's over
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baseed
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Wow, the "think of the children" bill was abused to punish chuds and the right while kids are still EPI'd en masse, imagine that
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Preemptively rangeban the yookay north sea economic zone where you can't even make any money
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>>17557>while kids are still EPI'd en masseYes, that's what 4chan does.
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fuck angloids
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>>17559what are you talking about theres just "normal" porn not the tranny fetish shit jewtube and 'tok
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>>17557Don't forget the grooming gangs
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>>17562Yes, that's what 4chan does.
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Common 4cuck L
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>>17555Banned for complaining about 4chan on 4chan? based
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>>17570It's actually hilarious how 4chan's moderation straight up admits it can't handle any criticism. And don't get started on making fun of pedos and porn addicts on 4chan. They all crawl out of the woodwork to call you names and act disingenuous. The whole website is really bad at keeping up the appearance of being an internet tough guy place because 99% of its users are so fragile.
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>>17571We can bully the jannies here and nothing happens
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>nusois really think that their site is not going to be next after 4cuck and kiwibraps
Are nusois really this foolish? Don't you realize that this is almost guaranteed to evolve into a blanket ban on all anonymous imageboards and other non-normie sites? The fact that Quote lives in the UK puts this site as a whole in huge danger.
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>>17573They are IRL htsms (projecting retard LARPers) and if you point this out they just call you a pedo because they have a singular brain cell making up their frontal lobe.
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>>175734chan NEEDS to die so other websites can live. Let them kill it and then act.
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d
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>>17573Youre right. We need to save 4cuck now by stopping censorship.
nevermind i forgot we're all teenagers from south america who arent in government positions
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What'll happen to the sharty? I mean 4cuck already like that. We are not safe either.
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the uk is aryan again
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most of 4cucks are from israel anyway geg
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>>17579difference is porn is not allowed on the sharty you fucking retards
you will only get in trouble with KKKeir SStarmer if your site allows
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geg now do it world-wide
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>>17581Kek nigger put xis email in der email field
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Ah yes quotes land
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used a month old article award
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Not like it matters anyways since half the IPs from der 'cuck users are from Israel
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>>17549oi bruv do you have a jakkin permit for that?
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>>17576The 4chan tranitors never familiarized themselves with the rules.
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>>17556>Baseed that sounds indian
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So, are we going to have UK 4channers on tha shart-E?
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>>17535 (OP)No more pajeet spammer on 4cuck however they will migrate to the sharty
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I can post on it doe
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>>17535 (OP)The last time I was able to post anything on 4chan I told a bunch of porn addicted pedophile retards to kill themselves and dared the jannies to ban me. The only thing any of this regulation is going to do is make these faggots culturally irrelevant even to the most terminally online obsessed spergs out there, or force them to try their LARP in the real world so we can finally curbstomp them and leave them out in the cold to die.
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>>17555>furry?based
>racism?based
>complaining about 4chan on 4chan?MEGA BASED. 4cuck trannies removed my posts for no reason.
Also, wahhh you don't get to call raids NYPA waaaaah. Let niggas raid who they want if they wanna join/
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>>17555>/v/ (furbait EPI slop), /lgbt/ (goymoder gooner outcasts), /co/ (thiccslop cartoons for autists)>"no heckin' racism pls, and DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE RULES!!!!!!">janny trannies probably hang out in most vantablack groomercord hugbox generals banning anyone they don't likeoh no no no, is this the so called last bastion of free speech?
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>>17596saar my name is baseed rajesh sarjeeta saar
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>>17606I'm happy theyre fighting
(((the uk government))) even though they're not an ally I would chose.
Also, it seems like the bans are on www.4chan.org but not boards.4chan.org so the bans aren't functional.
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Geg all they needed to do was to prevent children from accessing the site. 99% of 4coal users are porn addicted pedophiles
so it's not a surprise
>>17547Trvke
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TOTAL 4CUCK DEATH
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bro im from there and just went on 'cuck its not banned
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The worst part is that Oceania's dictatorship starts in Britain lol (no i am not defending 4cuck)
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4cuck lost
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>>17555geg you can get banned on the cuck for complaining about it? Not like the ártys janjans don't do the same but still.
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Geg, please do the same for India
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>>17606>janny trannies probably hang out in most vantablack groomercord hugbox generals banning anyone they don't likeCan confirm this.
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>>17641Porn isn't allowed here and relatively few people use it, which puts it way down the list. Let it kill 4chan and then say something, using 4chan as leverage. 4chan seriously need to die.
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porn addicts lost
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>>17641>>17643Also we're trans positive and valid, 4chud is le bad or something.
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>>17573I'm happy that a site wich gives a platform for litteral pedophiles is gone doe
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>>17549No arrow therefore you look like Bernd doctos acking.
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>>17555What a dograisin website.
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>>17637They already did for Londonistan, what's the difference?
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bump
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>>17573the fuggen jardee is not big enough,i still don't like that 4cuck got acked though,beacuse not all boards were bad and somehow still better than reddit
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britian finally doing something good
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>>17663>>17664fail bro dont know how to post
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ok
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>>17672Just sell it back to Froot, easy, problem solved, everyone's happy.
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>>17546Us White Aryans don't associate with 4trans.
>>175554chomos should've stayed banned forever. Such a dogshit site, idk how the 4cucks can tolerate still using it. 😒
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>>176534chan is literally evil.
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>>17643Nigga, your coinslot?
>b-but it's just le shock images
Still pornographic by definition, not to mention other naked photos of 'cado.
Also sharty/pol/ recently had literal race fetish porn spam.
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>>17681Is this a reference to that nothingburger from two years ago where some commiepedotroon furfags hacked into The Heritage Foundation and "leaked" some nophono?
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UK Chads won.
4cuck Trannies lost.
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>>17712That definitively isn't allowed. And it's still nowhere as bad as 4chan.