Will Trump Help 4chan Escape The Uk’s Internet Police?

After nan United Kingdom began enforcing its sweeping Online Safety Act successful April, British regulator Ofcom served usurpation notices to 3 notorious sites: 4chan, Gab, and Kiwi Farms, each of which risked multimillion-dollar fines. Late past week, Preston Byrne, a First Amendment lawyer representing them, struck back. Byrne announced he would writer Ofcom successful US national tribunal and added an different request. He called connected nan Trump management "to invoke each negotiated and ineligible levers disposable to nan United States" to protect his clients from nan OSA's reach.

Byrne's petition could put a trio of sites known arsenic hotbeds of violence, harassment, …

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