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“I’ve just closed the forum of a small classic car club because we don’t have the time or capacity to ensure compliance with only volunteers. Meta will benefit, because we will, reluctantly, move to using a Facebook page”
alecmuffett.com/article/112834
#OnlineSafetyAct #ofcom

image text: Quoth @ColinPoynter:




https://twitter.com/ColinPoynter/status/1902038092090859694
Dropsafe · “I’ve just closed the forum of a small classic car club because we don’t have the time or capacity to ensure compliance with only volunteers. Meta will benefit, because we will, reluctantly, move to using a Facebook page”
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“There is something deeply wrong when a law passed with cross-party consensus & endorsed by Britain’s most trusted charities has made it impossible to run an internet forum for hamster owners”
alecmuffett.com/article/112832
#OnlineSafetyAct #hamsters #ofcom

image text: Quoting @Sam_Dumitriu:




I forgot to say that every major newspaper was also in favour and the main opposition in Parliament was "It doesn't go far enough."





https://twitter.com/Sam_Dumitriu/status/1901950022477832384
Dropsafe · “There is something deeply wrong when a law passed with cross-party consensus & endorsed by Britain’s most trusted charities has made it impossible to run an internet forum for hamster owners”
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#Ofcom launches investigation into #GBNews over #LGBTQ+ slur goodlawproject.org/ofcom-launc #GoodLawProject "launched an online tool helping the public make a complaint to Ofcom about this latest example of GB News platforming toxic rhetoric. A record 71,582 people filed complaints in this way – almost 17,000 more than the 54,595 who complained about Piers Morgan in 2021."

Good Law Project · Ofcom launches investigation into GB News over LGBTQ+ slur | Good Law ProjectBroadcast that received more than 70,000 complaints over a lie linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia will be subject to a formal investigation.
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The UK Online Safety Act comes into effect today.

Its onerous duties may cause many small sites, blogs and fedi instances to shut down or geoblock UK users when faced with potential fines and penalties.

This won't keep children safe. It'll benefit large platforms like Facebook and X that are laying waste to content moderation.

theregister.com/2025/01/14/onl

The Register · It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the boardBy Lindsay Clark
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Ofcom’s risk assessment deadline has passed, and online platforms must now take action to protect users from illegal content and activity occurring on their platforms. Significant fines await those who fail.

computing.co.uk/news-analysis/

www.computing.co.ukNew Online Safety Act measures come into forceOfcom’s risk assessment deadline has passed, and online platforms must now take action to protect users from illegal content and activity occurring on their platforms. ...
#technews#uk#ofcom
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Great read

"The Online Safety Act reads to me as a profoundly ironic tragedy. #Ofcom constantly reiterates that huge, vague swaths of expression are “illegal, harmful content” while, to me, almost everything they’ve written about the #OSA is illegal, harmful content. The OSA exercises prior restraint and enables jawboning for a deliberate chilling effect, placing an undue burden that would never withstand strict scrutiny let alone justify unreasonable search and seizure"
lobste.rs/s/ukosa1/uk_users_lo

lobste.rsUK Users: Lobsters needs your help with the Online Safety Act | Lobsters
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When it comes to blogs, Ofcom says one thing, the UK Online Safety Act says another.

This lack of clarity over whether blogs with comments are exempt will push small sites to shut down completely.

We need the UK government to tighten up the definitions and exemptions in the Act.

Read our explainer for more detail ➡️ openrightsgroup.org/blog/save-

Open Rights GroupSave our Sites: Deadline 17 MarchIncredible as it may seem, thanks to the Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites are closing down by 17 March, rather than face threats of fines that could lose their operators their homes.
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Under the UK Online Safety Act, small blogs, forums and fedi instances are faced with disproportionate requirements to:

⚫️ Check if they have UK users

⚫️ Do a risk assessment on whether kids might access the content, or if CSAM or terrorist material might be posted in the comments

⚫️ Put themselves at the risk of fines, and even prison sentences, if they fail to comply with Ofcom’s future directives

#SaveOurSites 🌐

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Waiting in one of the car parks of the general hospital for the rest of the crew to arrive, today we are moving the #CommunityRadio #transmitter to the roof of the Maternity block. Alas, NHS won't allow me to share photos of the installation for security reasons (there's a lot of critical national infrastructure up there!) but #Ofcom are allowing us more TX power and it's a really good location, should get a few more km range on #VHF / #FM

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New #Documentation: Geo-blocking UK users in #BunnyCDN

I've got a site that, I think, #Ofcom _could_ decide falls under Part 5 of the #OnlineSafetyAct (actually, more accurately, I can't say definitively enough that they wouldn't).

I'm not willing to pay any money to the Age Verification industry, or let them have visitor data.

So, I've decided to move the site definitively out of scope by ensuring it doesn't have UK users

The post describes how to geoblock the UK

bentasker.co.uk/posts/document

www.bentasker.co.uk · Geoblocking the UK with BunnyCDN
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Save Encryption. Save the World 🌐

Only by blocking message scanning technology on messaging apps can we ensure online safety!

End-to-end encryption prevents predators and hackers from weeding their way into our private lives.

We must #PracticeSafeText 💬

openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-c

Open Rights GroupThe Case for EncryptionSpying on private messages has long been on the security services’ wish list.
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❌ No safe message scanning technology exists.

⚠️ These powers would force a cybersecurity weakness onto apps like WhatsApp and Signal.

‼️ Hackers, predators and spies could crowbar their way into everything you send.

✍️ Tell Ofcom: End-to-end Encryption Means Online Safety ➡️ action.openrightsgroup.org/48-

⏰ CLOSES Monday 10 March at 5pm.

#PracticeSafeText 💬