New UK Online Safety Act.

The Highway Man said:
What are you going to do with rowdy UK members, this is going to have serious ramifications for UK based forums! 😱
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Sadly, the last few years have led me to believe that the internet does need to be "controlled", as far this legislation goes, I am not sure I see the point as it aims to protect us from:
  • child sexual abuse
  • controlling or coercive behaviour
  • extreme sexual violence
  • extreme pornography
  • fraud
  • racially or religiously aggravated public order offences
  • inciting violence
  • illegal immigration and people smuggling
  • promoting or facilitating suicide
  • intimate image abuse
  • selling illegal drugs or weapons
  • sexual exploitation
  • terrorism
Which as far as I can tell are already illegal so I will assume this is an assignment of responsibility from basically no one to the platforms allowing users to participate in this type of behavior which on the face of it I support, there is the concern about how it will be enforced, I would hate to be charged with fraud for entering "frequently" in the "Sex:" field of an application form for example.

In my opinion the greatest problem online, these days isn't really any of those crimes (as they are already illegal) it is the spreading of disinformation; I would sooner see laws making users responsible for the information they post.
 
I can see a lot of forums closing, I own a forum that caters for owners of guinea pigs, it is one of the largest in the world. We've already taken steps by making it strictly 18+ membership and deleting any underage accounts.
 
The Highway Man said:
I can see a lot of forums closing, I own a forum that caters for owners of guinea pigs, it is one of the largest in the world. We've already taken steps by making it strictly 18+ membership and deleting any underage accounts.
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Surely with decent moderators you wouldn't have issues?

It also seems that these laws are aimed at the large providers like X, Facebook etc.
 
I have an excellent teams of mods who are switched on, the main social media culprits are the ones who are going to be bricking it, the 18m fine is peanuts to their owners though.
 
The Highway Man said:
I have an excellent teams of mods who are switched on, the main social media culprits are the ones who are going to be bricking it, the 18m fine is peanuts to their owners though.
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Then I really can't see an issue for you in particular, I do see problems for the 4Chan's and Alex Jones's of the world and I really couldn't care less about that as they do nothing but create problems because they can.
I also agree that for the large companies $18 million is nothing but I suspect the 10% of their qualifying worldwide revenue bit would make even Musk's eyes water.

Now I feel I need to ask but what are you doing with hamsters that needs to be 18+?
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It's not what we're doing with "guinea pigs" it's to put off brats joining just to troll with questions like, "I don't like my guinea pig anymore, are they poisonous to feed to snakes?" We've had our fill with bored kids during school holidays, so we've banned all kids. 👍
 
The Highway Man said:
It's not what we're doing with "guinea pigs" it's to put off brats joining just to troll with questions like, "I don't like my guinea pig anymore, are they poisonous to feed to snakes?" We've had our fill with bored kids during school holidays, so we've banned all kids.
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Seems odd as I would have assumed Guinea Pigs would have been the idea kids pet so they would be interested in that sort of board.
 
As a rule it is, all we ask that any queries are posted by parents. The untold grief we got from little princes and princesses as they stomped their way round the forum was a right pain in the backside. The forum has been a lot calmer since we banned under 18s. 👍
 
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