▲ | estimator7292 14 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
I don't know if you know this, but when you put a website online there isn't a big switch that says "TURN ON TO SERVE TO UK" When a resource exists on the internet, it is available to everyone. That's how the internet works. There is no mechanism by which to exclude any given country. You can try to geolocate the IP for every individual visitor, but that's a ridiculous burden for website operators and it also doesn't even work. Ofcom is trying to censor the entire global internet. If they want to censor the UK internet, they have much, much better tools. They're trying to enforce extrajudicial law by way of threats and bullying instead of actually taking proactive steps to "protect" UK citizens from dangerous memes. Ofcom has the right to censor the internet within the UK. They do not have the right to an opinion about what private entities do in other countries. | |||||||||||||||||
▲ | rbanffy 14 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> I don't know if you know this, but when you put a website online there isn't a big switch that says "TURN ON TO SERVE TO UK" No, but it's a relatively trivial setting to block IP ranges, especially for a service the size of 4chan. > You can try to geolocate the IP for every individual visitor, but that's a ridiculous burden for website operators and it also doesn't even work. It's not a ridiculous burden (the ranges are easy to obtain - I did it before) and it's not expected to be 100% effective against a dedicated user because proxies exist. | |||||||||||||||||
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