The US arrested and imprisoned the bosses of multiple UK-based gambling sites th...

petcat · 2026-03-19T21:32:36 1773955956

"You’re taking bets from U.S. customers → you’re violating U.S. law"

This is different than 4chan allowing UK viewers to access the website at all.

jen20 · 2026-03-20T05:02:46 1773982966

Why? It doesn't strike me as remotely different.

Country A has a law that says X is illegal, and tries to enforce it against companies in country B where X is legal.

Whether either case is reasonable is a different question, though.

egorfine · 2026-03-20T12:28:44 1774009724

> You’re showing pictures to UK customers → you’re violating UK law

egorfine · 2026-03-20T12:29:24 1774009764

As we can clearly see from the comment section here, Americans absolutely non-ironically believe their law applies to anyone they have business with.