4Chan and Kiwi Farms file joint lawsuit against British Ofcom

On Wednesday, 4chaan and Kiwi farms, one of the most controversial social media sites on the Internet, filed a federal lawsuit against the British government, on the pretext that the requirements of the online safety law in the United Kingdom violate their constitutional rights as American companies.

In a file submitted to the US provincial court in Colombia, Preston Bern and Ron Coleman, the team that represents the two sites, said that their customers are being punished by Offcom, the agency that regulates online content in the United Kingdom, because “engaging in legal behavior in the areas where web sites are based.”

The 4chaan and Kiwi farms are widely considered one of the most toxic websites on the Internet, and their user lists are poorly famous for the type of behavior online that the online safety law seeks to punish: racism, hate speech, harassment, spreading conspiracy theories, and bullying, among other actions. Kiwi Farms has turned into an organizational center for aggressive harassment campaigns, especially against transgender women and people, which are often bleeding in the real world. 4Chan has also been born huge harassing campaigns like Gamergate, as well as ethnic motivated fire shootings, and conspiracy theories like Qanon.

Both 4chaan and Kiwi farms may face very slope fines of up to 18 million pounds if they fail to comply with the Offcom requirements that they regularly submit “risk assessment” reports on their user base, because their sites that can be accessed in the United Kingdom earlier in August in August. In the deposit, their lawyers argue that Offcom overcomes its legal authority by trying to implement British law on companies stationed in the United States, where their behavior is protected through the American constitution and the American legal code, and seeks to announce an American federal judge that the Offcom has no jurisdiction in this matter.

Bern said in a statement to reporters.

OSA requirements have drawn an international violent reaction, as it is not clear whether sites like Reddit, Bluesky and Wikipedia will undergo the same penalties. But the Maga Internet-essence of the movement that supports Donald Trump-previously argued that the targeted networks specifically that hosted the right-wing extremist content, and that the Biden administration allowed them to do so.

Bern, who once represented right -wing social networks, said previously freedom He believes that the Trump administration has tried to make diplomatic background channels to get off to decline. Although there is no indication that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has intervened, Bern said that lawyers who represent other web sites face similar problems with Offcom who were closely watching them: if 4chaan and Kiwi Farms, from all places, receive legal protection, it will lead to them, too. He said: “I will not go into the details, but it is sufficient to say, there are many lawyers interested in taking off now.”