Also, undiagnosed ADHD.

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While overall poverty rates have improved considerably in recent decades, several individual countries have experienced a rise in poverty. As previously mentioned, 696 million people still live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than $1.90 (INT) per day

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/poverty-rate-by-country

He could just gift all of those people $1400 each which would keep them above the poverty line for two years and still have a shit load of money for himself.

Photography, Star trek, fountain pens

Name one

the “trucks” in your example are the users computers/phones.

No it’s the packets being sent from the 4chan server.

Stopping every single packet (or in the real world truck) to check it isn’t feasible, do that and you get 20 mile queues up the m20 (and the digital version of that). Plus any government trying to so it like that would get accused of tax payers money due to the insane amount of resources that would be needed.

Placing the responsibility on the company makes sense, so does issuing penalties for non compliance. The company that has a fine issued against them can of course ignore it if they’re set up outside the country that issues the fine. But they should then expect the country issuing the fine to escalate. If they don’t pay and don’t comply they can expect to have any assets in the uk seized and eventually get blocked from operating entirely. And probably have any executives arrested of they enter the country. Ofcom can’t just jump to getting a court order though because they need to be fair and give 4chan a chance to comply if they want to.

The problem with the online safety act is that it exists at all, and that they expect people to use third party authentication services many of which are operating from countries with poor data protection regulations. That said, as iit does exist the logic of saying that companies are the ones responsible for what people access from their servers does make sense.

now, some enterprising individuals have taken it upon themselves to buy, smuggle, and then sell those beverages inside the UK

Wouldn’t it be more akin to those individuals putting the alcohol into 4chan’s trucks that are taking other stuff to the UK? (and worse with 4chan’s knowledge)

In that case do you think it’s unreasonable that the uk government imposes penalties for 4chan refusing to remove the alcohol that they know is there from the trucks.

And then if 4chan then refuses to pay said penalties start to not allow them to bring any trucks into the uk at all?

It’s a process. They need to issue the fine first to give them a chance to pay rather than jumping to blocking it. If they continue to refuse to pay that’s where it’ll go.

Totally agree about Gove, it’s very much a stopped clock being right two times a day.

I don’t think it’s AI as such, I think it’s been about longer. A British politician famously said in 2017

I think the people of this country have had enough of experts

I think that attitude is much more wide spread than just the uk.

Also it’s much easier to triple a small number than a big one.

knowing the small number of companies that have access to the computer power to actually do a training with that data

the 70,717 AI startups worldwide

https://edgedelta.com/company/blog/ai-startup-statistics

Not every company will be training a model as big as the big names, but combined that’s a hell of a lot.

Does it matter what the purpose was? It was still causing them issues hosting their site.

Ah ok. That makes sense where it came from then.

I think there was a lot of speculation and jokes about that’s what would happen next from people on here and other places.

They’ve said nothing of the sort.

With regards to this most people are just ignoring the law. VPN use has gone through the roof.

The wording on ofcom is “should not” not" must not". It’s not illegal, they just don’t want people to do it and want people to think that it is illegal.

Her was such a good film.

Oh that makes it easier for the government.

Maybe that the end goal, force people back into the office by banning vpn