Hacker News: joe463369

New comment by joe463369 in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

joe463369 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:00:05 +0000

Democracy is having the laws Americans approve of, because God wrote their Constitution.

New comment by joe463369 in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

joe463369 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:29:16 +0000

It is undemocratic that European countries insist on making laws that Americans don't like.

New comment by joe463369 in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

joe463369 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:28:33 +0000

> This has led to outrageous examples such as this man who is facing a longer sentence for burning a Quran than the man who stabbed him (for burning said Quran): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xr12yx5l4o

This is a more than a bit misleading. The Quran-burner received a £240 fine, his assailant got 20 weeks suspended. Also, though he went for him with a knife, he wasn't successful - nobody was stabbed.

New comment by joe463369 in "ChatGPT wrote "Goodnight Moon" suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself"

joe463369 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:47:51 +0000

Where are the Grok acolytes to tell us "He could have written a poem encouraging himself to commit suicide in Vim."

New comment by joe463369 in "The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)"

joe463369 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:23:52 +0000

You've backtracked from your 'blank sign' position. I'm pointing out that your "People were just arrested for holding up signs like 'abolish monarchy'" might be on similarly shaky ground.

If it's not clear, I'm also heavily implying that you should be questioning the veracity of whatever source you're getting this easily-debunked tripe from.

New comment by joe463369 in "X 'acting to comply with UK law' after outcry over sexualised images"

joe463369 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:14:30 +0000

> These stories never make clear if the change is bounded by the location of the users.

IANAL but my understanding is that people outside the UK won't have their free speech affected and will still be able to ask Grok to create pornographic images of children for them. As the founding fathers intended.

New comment by joe463369 in "The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)"

joe463369 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:43:43 +0000

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/abolish-the-mona...

> Police Scotland said the 22-year-old woman arrested outside St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh on Sunday had been arrested for “breach of the peace”.

> The woman was holding a sign reading “f** imperialism, abolish monarchy”, but the sign is not understood to be the reason for her arrest

New comment by joe463369 in "The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)"

joe463369 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:06:07 +0000

Nobody has been arrested in the UK for holding a blank sign. Please stop saying it.

New comment by joe463369 in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

joe463369 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:32:10 +0000

If you're going to claim that people get arrested in the UK for criticising the government, it's reasonable to expect you have an example to hand.

New comment by joe463369 in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

joe463369 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:46:22 +0000

Presumably AGCOM are accountable to the Italian government and therefore ultimately the Italian people. Or do you just mean 'unaccountable' in the sense that Americans should be able to do whatever they please, wherever they please, and they don't appreciate being hindered by trivial things like other country's laws.

New comment by joe463369 in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

joe463369 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:31:23 +0000

I live in the UK. This has not happened here

New comment by joe463369 in "Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach"

joe463369 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:24:01 +0000

Please read the report linked in the article. This in not a policy announcement. This a report from a government-appointed official illustrating that there is a theoretical possibility that the current legalisation may be interpreted in a way they didn't intend.

New comment by joe463369 in "Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach"

joe463369 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:16:08 +0000

How on earth is holding an inquiry burying it? It's the opposite.

New comment by joe463369 in "Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach"

joe463369 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:07:35 +0000

It didn't happen in the US though, so that's neither here nor there. America's political system is not some benchmark that the rest of the world needs to judge themselves against.

New comment by joe463369 in "Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach"

joe463369 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:38:53 +0000

There is nothing in your link that says that the UK government is considering banning knives with pointy tips

New comment by joe463369 in "Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach"

joe463369 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:22:31 +0000

The UK can and does prosecute grooming gangs.

New comment by joe463369 in "How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA"

joe463369 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:06:29 +0000

"Fair enough, we've a long history of lynching black people and killing native americans, but we're not as bad as the Nazis"

That's some position to take.

New comment by joe463369 in "How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA"

joe463369 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:25:43 +0000

And The Lancet?

New comment by joe463369 in "How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA"

joe463369 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:51:19 +0000

A markedly different tone in this thread to the ones discussing Ofcom's attempt to fine 4chan.

New comment by joe463369 in "Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act"

joe463369 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:28:26 +0000

> we were not operating in the EU. Well, we had customers there...