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>Wouldn't this mean that the Act only applies to services explicitly design/targeting UK users/visitors?

Clearly not considering that there's nothing in 4chan that would make it explicitly targeted towards the UK. Unless Ofcom is saying something and doing the opposite.

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I low key want to see official documents stating the name of some of those threads: all the "bongland" and" have you got a loicense" threads with some of their respective comments.

4chan does have very minor explicit support for UK users; on some boards it puts a UK flag on their post (as it does with all other countries and territories.) It could perhaps be argued that this constitutes the site being consciously designed with UK users in mind. Hardly matters though, there's nothing the UK can do about it. They aren't a superpower anymore and it's time for them to realize it.

I am not a 4chan user. How is this flag assigned? Automatically by 4chan based on some criteria? Or chosen at will by the user?

Presumably if the latter, one may express their support of the flag of their choice; or indicate their heritage; or any number of other reasons.

If the former, and considering the existence of a .uk TLD, they probably are considered to be “targeting” that market.

You get one automatically assigned based on GeoIP. It's even mentioned on Wikipedia.

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

Non compliance will require the setting of a security flag in the IP header.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt

That's only on /pol/ though, and it's based on GeoIP. No other board has flags other than complete meme ones like /int/

Off topic, thread moved to /bant/ >>420694069

During the Euros they replace the British flag with flags for England, Scotland and Wales on the sports board.

4chan should troll the UK by replacing the UK flag with a roman one or another past occupier of their choice.

4chan.co.uk value decimated by this analysis

Oh no!

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