{"id":19117,"date":"2025-06-11T07:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/uk-media-regulator-investigates-possible-online-safety-breaches-at-4chan\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:38:21","slug":"uk-media-regulator-investigates-possible-online-safety-breaches-at-4chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/uk-media-regulator-investigates-possible-online-safety-breaches-at-4chan\/","title":{"rendered":"UK media regulator investigates possible online safety breaches at 4chan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ofcom looks into whether 4chan and file-sharing services failed to put measures to protect users from illegal content<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s media regulator, Ofcom, on Tuesday launched nine investigations into the internet message board 4chan as well as several file-sharing services over possible breaches of online safety laws.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s Online Safety Act, passed in 2023, sets tougher standards for platforms to tackle criminal activity, with an emphasis on child protection and illegal content.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jun\/10\/ofcom-4chan-online-safety-breaches\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/11241045091db7dddbb2c648661a2e0cec401534\/851_0_4349_3481\/master\/4349.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b9ca8640d3e2b9664dd298a6aa224396\" title=\"UK media regulator investigates possible online safety breaches at 4chan\" \/>Ofcom looks into whether 4chan and file-sharing services failed to put measures to protect users from illegal content<br \/>\nBritain\u2019s media regulator, Ofcom, on Tuesday launched nine investigations into the internet message board 4chan as well as several file-sharing services over possible breaches of online safety laws.<br \/>\nBritain\u2019s Online Safety Act, passed in 2023, sets tougher standards for platforms to tackle criminal activity, with an emphasis on child protection and illegal content. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofcom looks into whether 4chan and file-sharing services failed to put measures to protect users from illegal content Britain\u2019s media regulator, Ofcom, on Tuesday launched nine investigations into the internet message board 4chan as well as several file-sharing services over possible breaches of online safety laws. Britain\u2019s Online Safety Act, passed in 2023, sets tougher &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/uk-media-regulator-investigates-possible-online-safety-breaches-at-4chan\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK media regulator investigates possible online safety breaches at 4chan<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}