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British government threaten 4Chan over Anonymous Free Speech - gortex - 08-17-2025 If there's one thing the British government don't like , other then British people , its Free Speech and more so anonymity while speaking freely , with this in mind the British Office of Communications is threatening the owners of American website 4Chan with heavy fines of £20,000 plus daily penalties  due to its promotion of anonymous Free Speech because they don't fit in with Labours new "Online Safety" censorship act , the law firm acting on behalf of 4chan have issued a "piss off" notice to Starmer and his fascistas threatening their own court action through American courts and calling on Trump to get involved. https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1956391746029428914 I'm sure Starmer's proposed action against an American company offering anonymous online free speech on top of his bare faced lies to Trump's face about our "Free Speech" will make for an uncomfortable State visit of Trump for Starmer next month. Exasperated British Barester Daniel ShenSmith highlights the idiocy.     RE: British government threaten 4Chan over Anonymous Free Speech - Kenzo1 - 08-17-2025 Starmer is disgusting , totally betraying Britain . It will be interesting to see where this goes , cant really see how Trump could let that litle Piece of SH*T dictate American company . RE: British government threaten 4Chan over Anonymous Free Speech - Ninurta - 08-18-2025 4Chan isn't the first company to weather these threats from OFCOM, nor will it be the last. OFCOM isn't even the first entity to try their luck in this matter with American companies - New Zealand, among others, has also rolled the dice in trying to impose THEIR law in MY country. Most companies so "served" have responded that the foreigners trying to impose their law on OUR companies can all just go piss up a rope. The simple truth is that our companies don't fall under their jurisdiction. Rogue Nation, for example, has no UK assets, nor do we fall under UK jurisdiction. I know the jurisdiction I live in, and I know the jurisdiction our servers are in, and neither is a UK jurisdiction. So OFCOM can suck their 20,000 pounds a day "fines" right out of my... well, you get my drift. We HAVE no "duties" under the UK "online Safety Act", because we do not fall under UK law. What Parliament may or may not do over there has no effect on us, as we are beyond their jurisdiction. Their sole, only, and complete remedy for this "infraction" is to prevent such free speech outlets from crossing their borders. All they can do is put up another totalitarian "Great Firewall" like China has to regulate who can and who cannot be heard within their borders. that's it. that's all they can do, and thereby make their intolerable, draconian, totalitarian Censorship State obvious to all. If they don't wanna do that, they need not come crying to me. they can kiss my ass. We will say what we want, WHEN we want, at Rogue Nation. Our governing documents guarantee that we can, and that's all we need to fall back on. I mean, we fought a whole war, kicked ass and took names, and sent Cornwallis and his red-coated bugger boys packing back home with their tails tucked firmly between their legs to make sure we never again fell under British law, y'know? I suppose we could do it again if that became necessary. . RE: British government threaten 4Chan over Anonymous Free Speech - EndtheMadnessNow - 08-18-2025 Sounds like the British gov't need to be taught another lesson. 4Chan has literally survived years of democrats (since Trump's first term) + FBI harassment so I'm fairly confident they'll prevail. I guess time will tell. 4chan should respond to the UK government as Pirate Bay did to Sweden in 2004.