I wouldn't be so sure it's an ideological stand.

4chan got hacked a while back because they were running a totally outdated software stack. It's been pretty much abandoned by its owner hiromoot.

If they aren't going to update the site for basic maintainance, they definitely aren't going to implement all this chat control/ age verification bullcrap.

I suppose a resistance to change is good when your competitors are burying their own graves.

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lm28469 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

You can ban 75% of the web if your concern is outdated tech stacks and/or data breaches

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sokka_h2otribe 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I think they're saying that 4chan is not responding bc there is limited people at the helm, not that the UK gov is upset at their security.

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Gud 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

75%? Are you being generous because it's weekend?

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sejje 3 days ago | parent [-]

Agreed--if the concern is data breaches, we can just ban 100% of databases, even those offline.

If it's outdated tech stacks, I'm sometimes in favor of those. Move fast and break things isn't always the best.

	▲	Tade0 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's not an outdated stack - just a stable one. An outdated stack is a not-up-to-date version of Wordpress I foolishly set up because it was the last one compatible with a certain plugin used by a client on their website that I was recreating from the Wayback Machine. The domain was put on a black list of dangerous sites (rightfully so, considering that the bot that hacked into it replaced the site with spam).

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uyzstvqs 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

4chan got hacked because of some outdated dependency used for uploading PDF files, which was some obscure feature only available to some boards. The actual website does get maintained.

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OgsyedIE 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If the owner doesn't care about it and it's got such a strong network effect, what's stopping somebody from buying it and implementing the SomethingAwful monetization model, where it's free until you get banned and then $10 for every unbanning?

	▲	lupusreal 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Nobody besides Hiroshima Moot is dumb enough to buy 4chan.
	▲	Hamuko 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think he enjoys the revenue it generates, not actually running the site.

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oceansky 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I laughed at hiromoot. Very clever nickname

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sillysaurusx 3 days ago | parent [-]

I know moot, but what’s the hiro part mean?

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mostlysimilar 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

A Japanese man named Nishimura Hiroyuki bought and now owns 4chan. It's a mashup of their names.

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Hamuko 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Nishimura

>Users on 4chan refer to him commonly as 'hiro' but also by the ethnic slur "gook moot", or the nickname "Jackie 4chan", "Hiroshima Nagasaki," or simply "hiroshimoot".

	▲	soraminazuki 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's kind of misleading because it lists hiroshimoot alongside blatantly racist nicknames. But hiroshimoot simply appears to be the names of two people mixed together.

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bananalychee 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If that were the case I'd expect them to block UK IPs (or ignore the threats entirely) rather than fighting it legally.

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caesil 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wonder what they're going to do when the states mandating age verification for pornographic content start coming for them.

Very similar to these dystopian foreign laws. But because they're US states 4chan will not be able to use the "we only recognize US law" defense.

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Hikikomori 3 days ago | parent [-]

The latest Steam and visa/Mastercard debacle has the project2025 head behind it. They want to make pork illegal in the US as well.

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verzali 3 days ago | parent [-]

Pork? Why?

	▲	geoffpado 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Typo/autocorrect of “porn”, presumably.
	▲	sim7c00 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		its haram :p

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zahlman 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> I wouldn't be so sure it's an ideological stand.... they definitely aren't going to implement all this chat control/ age verification bullcrap.

I read this as a plain contradiction.

> they were running a totally outdated software stack.

And this as a convenient pretense.