> While Ofcom were barmy to even try this

Quote from the article:

> Ofcom has targeted 200-ish American platforms with censorship orders; only four of those sites, all of which are my clients, refused

Seems like Ofcom broadly got the result they wanted. A 98% success rate is not going to be particularly discouraging to them.

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fidotron 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Standard regulator strategy: try to make the one thing you actually want to comply be the odd one out and then point at them going "but why not you too?" (The FTC do this as well).

4chan was absolutely the defining target of this wave of noise, but X is what really bothers the UK establishment.

	▲	quietbritishjim 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		X is different because it does have a business presence in the UK: UK advertisers

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ycombinatrix an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The rest of them presumably wanted to continue doing business in the UK & did not want to IP-block the entire country.

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BikiniPrince 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How many of those organizations had business within Ofcoms jurisdiction? No one operating outside of their legal jurisdiction should have complied.

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andybak 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Presumably a decent chunk of those might now reconsider?

	▲	echoangle 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And also this only worked once, but in the future other entities getting sued now know they can just ignore it.
	▲	shadowgovt 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		it depends on what those other orgs want. Not being able to do business in (or, depending on how serious they are about enforcement action, visit) the UK is actually pretty constraining. It's understandable if other companies decided they would prefer to find a middle ground that lets them provide one face to the US and another to the UK, or even that they're not interested in 4chan-style maximalism and found it non-onerous to comply with the UK asks because they're pretty in-line with the site's existing standards (I'd have to see the list of sites that complied to have a real opinion on that part).

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Bender 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Did any of them move to a .onion? I would expect commercial sites to cave and some small sites to just move to Tor which probably accomplishes the same thing as far fewer people use the Tor Browser or Brave. I could also be delusional.

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mschuster91 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> A 98% success rate is not going to be particularly discouraging to them.

The thing is, you can afford sticking the finger to the UK if you do not have any business interests there. A platform like 4chan won't be bothered even if the UK government says "all payments to be made towards 4chan for advertising are hereby seized until the fine is paid off". But places like Twitter or Meta, that derive millions if not billions of euros a year from the UK and European advertisers? Now that's a lot of money to lose, money that even American shareholders will complain about it being missing from the revenue sheet.

	▲	ozyschmozy 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> from the UK and European advertisers Why would "European" advertisers come into this, I don't think ofcom has jurisdiction outside of the UK?