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| ▲ | pjc50 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | It is not blocked in the UK. I think OFCOM themselves recognize the problem with trying to ban VPNs, but extremely dim MPs and extremely angry newspapers (who are the underlying enemies of free speech here) don't. | |
| ▲ | crtasm 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Did they fully block it or just put it on the blocklists that you can turn off in your account settings? https://www.blocked.org.uk/site/http://www.4chan.org suggests the latter to me, but the checks aren't very recent | | |
| ▲ | miohtama 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Using a nationwide default blocklist to address 4chan would be appropriate behaviour for Ofcom, given its duty to protect kids. Beyond that, it is just madness to try to control the US company or fine it. Going beyond this duty shows that not all biscuits are present at the afternoon tea. It's not like Facebook, or anyone's personal life or business, depends on 4chan. | |
| ▲ | ryankrage77 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | In my experience, ISPs just 'block' it at the DNS level. Using another DNS provider 'unblocks' everything. | | |
| ▲ | TZubiri 19 minutes ago | parent [-] | | This is my experience too, I don't know why they don't do IP level blocks. It's pretty trivial to evade a lot of bans. I think the Spain-Cloudflare case does IP level blocks and it has a lot of side effect damage, but if I recall they do IP-block level blocking because the vendor, cloudflare, provides header/envelope encryption and pooling, so the Spanish courts considers it legal to block the whole service even, alleging that they are not collaborating with court orders, they just choose not to block the whole provider to reduce the collateral damage, even if they consider they have jurisdiction to block all of CF |
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| ▲ | tourmalinetaco 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 4chan and Kiwi Farms, which is something the article intentionally glosses over. Honestly, KF is a far more “dangerous” place in the eyes of the UK government, as 4chan hasn’t been relevant for around a decade, and the combined efforts to deplatform KF traditionally has been fruitless. |
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