4chan is suing the UK government over its age-verification law and its opening page will startle anyone who remembers that the web was invented in Switzerland by a British man.
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We need to begin preparing for a world where access to US based technology and services becomes impossible.
aug 28, 2025, 1:10 pm • 0 0 • view
No idea if they deserve any benefit of any doubt, but I presume that’s to get the American court onside?
aug 28, 2025, 7:49 am • 0 0 • view
You are not wrong, but, if memory serves, his office was on the border with France and his desk… Anyway, 4chan giving people brain damage by presenting the dumbest possible argument isn’t exactly new.
aug 28, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm sure that'll go down swimmingly in the British courts.
aug 27, 2025, 11:46 pm • 3 0 • view
I mean we can debate “the internet” vs “the web” but uhh, That is QUITE the angle to come at. Wow.
aug 27, 2025, 11:47 pm • 6 0 • view
I've seen this attitude in a few places, like a lot of people believe that Europe doesn't contribute anything meaningful to the current web/internet?
aug 27, 2025, 11:49 pm • 2 0 • view
The idea that Europe is not contributing meaningfully to various things has been coming up more in certain circles in America recently. Doesn't make it true.
aug 28, 2025, 6:14 am • 3 0 • view
I think there’s some of that in some shitty circles and also there’s Europe itself being tired of massive American tech cos owning too many of the ubiquitous tools
aug 28, 2025, 7:54 am • 0 0 • view