UK's Ofcom has today fined 4chan £450k for not having age checks in place

Amateurs. Russia has fined Google more than the GDP of the entire planet. Odds of collecting are about the same.

4chan's lawyer's response:

"In the only country in which 4chan operates, the United States, it is breaking no law and indeed its conduct is expressly protected by the First Amendment."[0]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c624330lg1ko

UK fining an American company for this is absurd. 4Chan isn't breaking any laws. You can make it illegal for your own citizens but you can't regulate a foreign business. UK citizens should fight for the right to free speech though.

4chan doesn't need age checks, everyone knows there are only five year olds on it. :-p

4chan fighting for us all! Bravo.

This part is somewhat surprising to me:

> Data shows that nearly 80% of the top 100 pornography sites in the UK now have age checks in place. This means that on average, every day, over 7 million visitors from the UK are accessing pornography services that have deployed age assurance.

I would have expected that most people would switch to other pornography sites that don't have age checks rather than doing an age check. But apparently that isn't the case. (Or their data is misleading. People in the UK who are using VPNs presumably can't be easily identified as British.)

£450k? - Quick, we must show we've done something.

> or requiring Internet Service Providers to block a site in the UK.

Ah, that's what they want.

4chan is still a thing? I thought it died long ago. Perhaps I grew up.