Vriska1

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• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 4 days, 13 hours

  

  It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board - The Register

  https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/online_safety_act/

• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 6 days, 14 hours

  

  Kyle still does not want to talk about small sites and all the privacy and legal issues with the OSA...

  Also the other side of the Labour Gov wants to distance itself from the Conservative govt's "overbearing focus on safety"

• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 1 week, 2 days

  

  Btw an update from Rachel Coldicutt with the Indie Compliance mailing list and a Ofcom conference with small sites in February.

  https://buttondown.com/indie-and-community-web-compliance-/archive/2-five-things-you-need-if-you-run-a-small-low/

• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 1 week, 3 days

  

  "Labour to widen misinformation laws in bid to take on Elon Musk"

  https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/labour-widen-misinformation-laws-take-on-musk-3468296

  Let me guess another law that will in the end only affect small sites?

• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 1 week, 4 days

  

  Thing is the OSA has so much red tape that its likely to have a huge negative affect on the UK tech economy at a time when the UK economy is not doing well and Labour has a 16% approval rating.

• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 1 week, 4 days

  

  It is unworkable and the last attempt at this was delayed and them scapped because it was a privacy and legal nightmare.

  But I do want to say the age verification stuff does not come in to force for most sites until around July (that if its not delayed) but adult sites may have to enforce it starting around the 17th of January. The whole thing is a mess.

  https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/important-dates-for-online-safety-compliance/

• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 1 week, 4 days

  

  And the forum would now be a very very different beast, a public only, text only message board... with age verification.

  Aswell as the fact that Age verification like IDs and Facial recognition is a privacy and legal nightmare. It's on very very shaky legal grounds.

  Also you would also have to deal with the ICO (Information Commissioner's Office) and they have there own set of rules...

  https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/childrens-information/childrens-code-guidance-and-resources/how-to-use-our-guidance-for-standard-one-best-interests-of-the-child/best-interests-framework/age-assurance/

• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 1 week, 4 days

  

  Hopefully UK forums do not shut down, @user159461 Have you guys try to get in direct contact with Ofcom and the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Peter Kyle to explain the negative affect the law is having on small sites?

  You could also get in contact with news sites like The Telegraph and The Register aswell as getting in contact with UK internet rights groups like the open rights group, big brother watch and index on censorship.

• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 2 weeks, 3 days

  

  The Australia social media ban for under 16s is unlikely to even happen in the end, It was a rushed mess that not going to hold up in court.

  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/25/banning-under-16s-from-social-media-may-be-unconstitutional-and-ripe-for-high-court-challenge

• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 2 weeks, 4 days

  

  DMs are very likely going to be scanned

  That in its self may not be legal under the ruling Roman Zakharov v. Russia if you have to weaken encryption to do it.

  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/european-court-human-rights-confirms-undermining-encryption-violates-fundamental

  Another big problem is many of Ofcom new rules and the law itself are on very shaky legal grounds, So they may demand you do something, you then do it, but then the rules are taken down by a Judicial reviews and legal challenges.