Censorship-mad UK is going after US Tech companies.
There’s an ongoing struggle in the Donald J. Trump administration to keep UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s censorship push from encroaching in US citizens’ liberties.
We have reported on how the Trump Administration Warns UK’s Censorship-Mad PM Starmer Not to Threaten US Tech Companies With His ‘Online Safety Act’.
While some progress has been made, on the whole Starmer is on the same path that led Elon Musk to say last November that the UK Has Gone ‘Full Stalin’.
The latest chapter in the Labour party shenanigans with their draconian ‘Online Safety Act’ has been launched against online platform 4chan.
Today, a lawyer representing the message board said 4chan will NOT pay proposed fines by the UK’s media regulator.
BBC reported:
“According to Preston Byrne, managing partner of law firm Byrne & Storm, Ofcom has provisionally decided to impose a £20,000 fine ‘with daily penalties thereafter’ for as long as the site fails to comply with its request.
‘Ofcom’s notices create no legal obligations in the United States’, he told the BBC, adding he believed the regulator’s investigation was part of an ‘illegal campaign of harassment’ against US tech firms.”
“’4chan has broken no laws in the United States – my client will not pay any penalty’, Mr. Byrne said.”
After investigating 4chan under the UK’s ‘Online Safety Act’, Ofcom issued a ‘a provisional notice of contravention’ for lack of compliance with two requests for information.
Law firms Byrne & Storm and Coleman Law took to X to respond, saying that 4chan is a US company incorporated in the US, protected against the UK law.
Byrne & Storm, P.C. (@ByrneStorm) and Coleman Law, P.C. (@RonColeman) represent 4Chan.
We issue this statement on behalf of our client in response to press reports indicating that the U.K. Office of Communications, aka @Ofcom, intends to fine our client. pic.twitter.com/SVjmzlyuKK
— Preston Byrne (@prestonjbyrne) August 15, 2025
“American businesses do not surrender their First Amendment rights because a foreign bureaucrat sends them an email.
Under settled principles of US law, American courts will not enforce foreign penal fines or censorship codes.
If necessary, we will seek appropriate relief in US federal court to confirm these principles.”
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