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Everything the right - and the left – are getting wrong about the Online Safety Act (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
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Dubbed the UK censorship act these days, will it survive the political backlash we are witnessing? Will big tech work to get it right rather than cut off the UK? Can the UK put a stopper back in the bottle? Is this really about social media when it is pornhub doing the blocking? No mention of the fediverse in this article either sadly, but a good read nevertheless. And he has got something right: the US megas have been extreme amplifiers. But Pornhub is Canadian

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[–] [S] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And yet, if you read act: there is a reasonable argument within the legislation. And the article posted mentions it too, from the architect. So you are correct in the fact the size of the site matters not. But if you are reasonably not about questionable matetial, you are likely exempt. Which is essentially what wikipedia are testing. So call it an overreach all you want; but this is yet to be proven

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I've read the act and it's not clear at all. There is a legal risk if you run a small site about a legal subject with a comment section or forum now that didn't exist before, which was not the stated intent of the law, and which results from the legislation being poorly drafted.

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