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4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act (arstechnica.com)
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If 4chan continues to ignore Ofcom, the forum could be blocked in the UK. And 4chan could face even bigger fines totaling about $23 million or 10 percent of 4chan’s worldwide turnover, whichever is higher. 4chan also faces potential arrest and/or "imprisonment for a term of up to two years," the lawsuit said.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

were Conservatives and therefore arrogant and of the opinion that if they don’t like something, it’s realities responsibility to reconfigure itself.

Which is exactly what they have done with tariffs in the US.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Th US has taken it to step further. Somehow they've managed to convince a significant junk of the population that a tariff is not a tax, and that the tariff is paid by the importing country, even though that's not how tariffs work. They don't require reality to actually do anything, they just require the populace to be mind numbingly stupid. Fortunately, they are.

It's pretty ironic, the United States was founded on the back of unfair taxation, and yet financial literacy is probably lower in the US than it is in any other country in the world.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I remind people as much as possible that it is essentially a federal sales tax.