• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    If I recall, the US vehemently disagreed with the right of the British to enforce their laws here. Quite successfully, I might add.

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      2 months ago

      It’s not just the British, it’s all “core western” nations honestly. USA most of all, it is of course funny that a British regulator tries to do that with an American company, that doesn’t happen often.

      They demand fulfillment of their laws regardless of jurisdiction when the other side is weaker, and ignore laws of others even if firmly inside those others’ jurisdiction. And that’s so normalized that nobody even thinks about it except for such funny moments.

      There are honestly worse things.

      All of Mediterranean border and migration matters are resolved in this way, there are “coast guard” military organizations on the African shores with their own small concentration camps for those attempting to illegally migrate to Europe (not nice, of course, but doesn’t warrant such conditions) which in reality are funded by Italian and French governments and really report to them and act in their interest. I think I’ve read a few articles describing those.

      It’s not been so long since France enforced its laws on much of the African continent. Due to malicious and incompetent jerks in its top, it has lost much of that. And I hope it’ll lose everything colonial, French Guyana included.

      I’ve read just yesterday about British troops and Kenya in the context of a murder, which was pretty known in that regiment, with all the circumstance, and the perpetrator is a vet living in UK just fine with family and all, and more than 10 years after the British have formally started some kind of investigation, and it will apparently go on for a couple more decades. It’s literal mockery of the victim’s family, and it’s normal for Europeans in such cases.

      Hell, even western policy on Armenia is not a result of some rules, it’s a result of one European politician with connections having their ass torn by bandits in Armenia in 2012. They are taking revenge for that. They think thousands of honorable decent men dead are worth less than one criminal’s torn ass. That a whole nation with its history is worth less than that. That they have right to think and act like that.

      If you want Europeans (and Americans, and Australians, and Canadians, and so on) to learn honor, you need to have that whole imperial bunch thoroughly defeated by Chinese, or by India, or by them all together, or whatever.

      Otherwise it’s simply unnatural for humans to know their borders. While the empire (in the British and French, not in the Roman, nor in Chinese, nor in Japanese, nor in Russian, nor even in Spanish meaning) is still alive, it will morally decay further and further.

      And you know what’s the funniest? Growing up in Russia I thought I’m smarter than people around me for thinking that the general sense of what I just wrote is all propaganda. LOL. Soviet and Russian propaganda softened that reality, if anything, they had and have to somehow justify dealing with those nations. Modern Russian propaganda didn’t stop that too, they are just adding some delusions on the side.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah. The truce with the native American’s was not favoured and banning slavery wasn’t acceptable…

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        2 months ago

        One can have segregation and cheap colored abused labor without slavery, like most of the British empire after it went out of fashion. And one can rob, abuse and genocide natives with a formal truce in place.

        Those pesky colonials just didn’t understand nuance.

  • FelixCress@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    USians are surprised that they must follow the foreign law if they do business (generate income) outside of the USA.

    And the guy writing this blog is a fucking utter idiot.

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        2 months ago

        It is not a great piece of legislation but the statements from 4chan are hysterical 😂

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      2 months ago

      You are extremely wrong and will inevitably have your face rubbed in that fact when the UK fails to do anything to/about 4chan

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        2 months ago

        It is quite simple really - 4chan will either pay and comply or be blocked in the UK, lose all the revenue from UK traffic and be constantly on guard where their financial assets are as these will be seized if handled by UK bank.

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          2 months ago

          4chan will pay nothing, the UK has no power to seize any assets 4chan has, any revenue they lose will be negligible and temporary

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              2 months ago

              How much money do you think UK users are worth to 4chan? And how much do you think the free international publicity for telling the UK government to fuck off might be worth? I would be surprised if they cave to this nonsense.

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                2 months ago

                Probably not a lot.

                And for the same reason I cant imagine the government would have any problems or issues blocking them altogether. Its not like there’d be an outpouring of support, I imagine you could ask any 10 people on the street if any of them know what 4chan is and you’d draw a blank. Maybe 1 in 20 will know its for dank memes.

          • FelixCress@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            You USians are funny, you really believe you are exceptional and your shitty companies are above the law.

            EU and EU countries proved you wrong multiple times when they fined your big tech. This time it will be no different.

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              2 months ago

              Lol @ “you think you’re exceptional” from a country literally in the middle of trying to enforce their laws on others, delusional

              • FelixCress@lemmy.world
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                2 months ago

                No, sweetie. USians are shocked to find out laws apply to them. Difficult concept, I know.

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                  2 months ago

                  UK laws matter internationally exactly as much as the UK does, which is to say nowhere near enough for this lol