> 61. Section 179 of the Online Safety Act, the “false communications offence,” makes it a criminal offense to send information which the sender knows to be false if, at the time of sending that message, the person intended the message to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience, and the person had no “reasonable excuse” for sending that message.
> 62. Section 179 of the Online Safety Act effectively creates a defamation crime in the United Kingdom.
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> 65. Ofcom's notices and demands to 4chan, including the "legally binding information notice" on April 14, 2025, the "failure to respond" letter on April 30, 2025, the investigation noticeon June 9, 2025, the "final legal notice" on June 16, 2025, the "Preliminary Contravention Email" on July 9, 2025, and the “provisional decision notice” on August 12, 2025, to the extent that they pertain to speech proscribed by Section 179 of the OSA, constitute foreign judgments that would restrict speech protected under U.S. law including under, e.g. the SPEECH Act, 28 USCS § 4101.