• fistac0rpse@fedia.io
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    22 hours ago

    It’s ridiculous for the UK to issue fines to a company who doesn’t operate in the country. Just block access if that’s whatever your stupid laws dictate.

    • FelixCress@lemmy.worldOP
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      14 hours ago

      EU fined number of tech giants before, this is not new. If you have users and derive income from a country, you are operating in this country.

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        7 hours ago

        Those tech giants operate in the EU and have EU customers. 4Chan does neither and stores no user data. At that point the onus is on the user and the UK/EU should be going after their own citizens that use it if they have a problem with it being used. Ideally, they wouldn’t go after anyone but here we are.