Local law enforcement agencies and courts. A British quango has floated the idea that American cops will be dispatched to collect a British speech fine, on the week of America’s 250th birthday, from a website whose entire legal existence sits under the First Amendment. You could not make it up, and yet here we are.
Preston Byrne, the US lawyer representing 4chan, gave the plan the review it deserved.
“This is legally illiterate,” Byrne wrote on X. “If they really want to sue us in the United States to recover a foreign censorship penalty, we welcome the fight.”
He was only warming up. “we now have a foreign censor claiming not only that their laws work on U.S. soil, but also that they can conscript U.S. police forces to finish the job,” Byrne wrote, adding that “Ofcom’s threats here are, much like their fines regime, toothless and designed to intimidate.”
His conclusion on the whole business: “it’s long past time for the U.S. to put the UK back in its box.”
And then kick the box off a dock.
Any civilized reply should include "and the horse you rode in on!"
ReplyDeleteA hamster??? Are you #^$%!& kidding me??? A hamster? What kind of gay soy bois message is a hamster? City folk and lawyers...
The whole overseas censorship conceptis rather entertaining though. Kind of like sanctions.
Almost certainly a delusional moron spouting BS. But these days one can ever be 100% certainl
ReplyDelete4chan(bless those autistic geeks!)and their lawyer have had a field day with this,sending back images of giant hampsters in London and such.
ReplyDeleteI am sure also as they gave out e mail addresses of police units in Britain they had some fun there!