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4chan & Kiwi Farms are suing OFCOM. Put your feelings aside on both sites for a second. Trust me, you want OFCOM to lose on this one. If not, it would allow for significant overreach of the OSA into the U.S.

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Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne On behalf of our clients, 4chan and Kiwi Farms, the law firms of Byrne & Storm, P.C. (@ByrneStorm ) and the Coleman Law Firm, P.C. (@roncoleman ) have, today, filed a federal lawsuit against the UK Office of Communications, a/k/a Ofcom, in DC federal court. Preston Byrne of Byrne & Storm, P.C., counsel for the plaintiffs, said: "American citizens do not surrender our constitutional rights just because Ofcom sends us an e-mail. In the face of these unlawful foreign demands, our clients have bravely chosen to assert their constitutional rights." "The UK Online Safety Act is a brazen attempt by a foreign country to hobble American competitiveness and suffocate American freedom by exporting the UK's censorship laws to our shores." "If foreign countries feel like bullying Americans, that is their prerogative. The First Amendment bar is prepared to hale any foreign censor into federal court at any time to defend any American." Ronald Coleman of the Coleman Law Firm, P.C., counsel for the plaintiffs, said: "With this action, our clients defend the free speech rights of every American." "Foreign interference of the type seen in this case is precisely what the First Amendment is meant to protect against." "We have asked the Court to confirm that Ofcom has no authority to impose or enforce unconstitutional UK laws on American soil."UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA4CHAN COMMUNITY SUPPORT LLCand LOLCOW, LLC, d/b/a KIWI FARMS,Plaintiffs,Civil Action. No.v. COMPLAINTTHE UK OFFICE OFCOMMUNICATIONS, a/k/a OFCOM,Defendant.Plaintiffs 4chan Community Support LLC and Lolcow, LLC, through their undersignedcounsel, allege and say as follows for their Complaint against defendant Ofcom:INTRODUCTION1. The Internet is a global system of communication between computer servers,located in data centers around the world. Despite the Internet’s global reach, it is more or lessuniversally acknowledged that the Internet is, predominantly, an American innovation, built byAmerican citizens, residents, and companies, and that the United States has the largest and mostthriving technology sector of any G7 member state.2. Foreign governments, particularly those in Europe, which have not managed tobuild technology sectors of their own have, for the past half-decade or more, sought to control theAmerican Internet, and hobble American competitiveness, through a range of legislative and non-legislative initiatives.3. These foreign governments have threatened American and other non-Europeanentrepreneurs with a wide range of coercive threats, including, fines, arrest, and imprisonment, forengaging in conduct which is perfectly lawful in the territories where their websites are based,1:25-cv-2880
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    Ryusui @theryusui.bsky.social

    it's not so much that they're "on our side" as that Galactus is coming to eat the planet Earth and Doctor Doom is pissed because he's not done conquering it yet

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