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0 pointsokanat7d ago0 comments

This is false. You of course can regulate and fine a foreign business. That's how trade regulations work.

The UK isn't going to get a cent from that but the leadership is banned from entering the UK for the foreseeable future.

Doing this a lot as a country is how you achieve pariah status and losing a bunch of trade, though.

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chrisjj7d ago

> the leadership is banned from entering the UK for the foreseeable future

Not at all. But if they do enter, they might find difficulty leaving.

poizan426d ago

They haven't pierced the corporate veil as far as I can tell - it's not moot or any other executives that have been personally fined. Also as far as I'm aware the UK doesn't have debtors jail.

chrisjj6d ago

On the contrary. Online Safety Act breaches can carry personal liability and up to 2yrs jail.

chmod7753d ago

moot doesn't own or run 4chan anymore. The current owner and admin is Japanese, residing in Paris at this time.

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

wat100007d ago

Trade regulations apply to the importer, which might also be the exporter if they have a local presence, but also may not be.

If I buy something illegal off of AliExpress, the US government won't and can't do squat to the seller. If they decide to enforce the law, they'll go after me.

ilovecake19846d ago

Not really. Nowhere else in the world is free speech absolutist.

US is extremist and out of step with the civilised world.

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