Note: I had to edit the title because it was too long for HN

Good luck in trying to collect it.

what a pointless excersize this is

Do they even have any legal presence in UK to fine?

At this point we need big names to choose to remove their services in the UK so the government gets the message.

4chan is fighting them as well.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/05/when-trolls-take-on-tyra...

What an odd feeling to be rooting for 4chan...

What a colossal waste of time. At this point, just unplug the undersea cables, and turn the UK into a big intranet. It's clearly what Ofcom wants.

4chan will pay in two more weeks

Ofcom can go of itself.

poor Brits

exercise in futility

I think the end state of this will be when Trump links prosecutions like this to tariff deals, and Kier Starmer will have to choose between mean words on the internet or further damage to an economy in already bad shape.

Do members of parliament also need to provide their IDs when they want to jerk off?

Reminder that Google owes Russia more money than exists in the world, for continuing to disobey the Russian law which commands them to allow the Russian state to upload its propaganda on Youtube.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxvnwkl5kgo

Ofcom are basically the UK's Roskomnadzor. Tell them to go fuck themselves with a copy of the OSA.

I'm from the UK and would gladly fuck all of them with a copy of the OSA, but I'd rather that the law were repealed. In the meantime, I'm telling everyone how to use VPNs and Tor Browser, and to never give anyone their real identity details on the internet.

Many people are saying this is symbolic and cannot be enforced. Unfortunately, that's just not true. Look at what happened to the founder of Telegram. Some jurisdiction decides you're violating their laws, all you need to do is catch a connecting flight or take a vacation on their soil or a place that will eagerly extradite, and you're a political prisoner.

What happens if one of the officers of 4Chan or Gab is on a flight to Paris and the plane is redirected to London? Well, they're going to prison. The UK is a police state.

Heh, I wonder if it's just like how 4chan anons j?rking off to themselves for the fact that Ofcom sends out pointless fines and sh?t.

I was not aware of the main driver, not mentioned, sanctioned suicide even existing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctioned_Suicide

Looks like Hiro will have to cut the 4chan jannies' salaries to pay the fine.