Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users

Re:Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties t... by boppo1 on Sunday August 17, 2025 @05:50PM (#44935236)

4chan will win, american techbros will celebrate, then in a year the US will pass some sort of KYC.

Surveillance is inevitable.

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Re:Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties t... by userbinator on Sunday August 17, 2025 @05:54PM (#44935271)

Only with that defeatist attitude will it be inevitable.

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Re:Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties t... by schoen on Sunday August 17, 2025 @06:17PM (#44935416)

A great and inspiring example is the SOPA/PIPA thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#Opposit...

Now, there are other less inspiring examples (e.g. SESTA/FOSTA)! and this didn't somehow form a durable political consensus (or an entrenched legal principle), but people looking at this issue in advance would have thought, and did think, that obviously this legislation would pass. And then it didn't.

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Re:Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties t... by MikeTheGreat on Sunday August 17, 2025 @06:24PM (#44935475)

genuine question: what is a "KYC"?

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Re:Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties t... by sciurus on Sunday August 17, 2025 @06:30PM (#44935513)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer

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Re:Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties t... by MikeTheGreat on Monday August 18, 2025 @12:07AM (#44937312)

Thanks!

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Re:Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties t... by benchloftbrunch on Sunday August 17, 2025 @06:34PM (#44935536)

Know your customer

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Re:Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties t... by MikeTheGreat on Monday August 18, 2025 @12:07AM (#44937313)

Thanks!

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