4chan and Kiwi Farms sued the United Kingdom’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) over its age verification law in U.S. federal court Wednesday, fulfilling a promise it announced on August 23. In the lawsuit, 4chan and Kiwi Farms claim that threats and fines they have received from Ofcom “constitute foreign judgments that would restrict speech under U.S. law.”
Both entities say in the lawsuit that they are wholly based in the U.S. and that they do not have any operations in the United Kingdom and are therefore not subject to local laws. Ofcom’s attempts to fine and block 4chan and Kiwi Farms, and the lawsuit against Ofcom, highlight the messiness involved with trying to restrict access to specific websites or to force companies to comply with age verification laws.
I’d rather if they just spat it out that we should take back domestic control over social media. And made a law surrounding that.
Honestly wouldn’t mind if they banned large foreign social media platforms in exchange for domestic ones.
People constantly whine about immigration and mohammed down the road ruining their culture. The real risk to our culture is people consuming american mass media and falling to their machines.