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.
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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.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake