- As deadline passes to carry out illegal harms risk assessments, sites and apps must now start tackling criminal content
- Ofcom launches enforcement programme into child sexual abuse imagery on file-sharing services
- As deadline passes to carry out illegal harms risk assessments, sites and apps must now start tackling criminal content
- Ofcom launches enforcement programme into child sexual abuse imagery on file-sharing services
What does this mean for Lemmy servers based in the UK, and for Lemmy instances that have users from the UK?
Nothing if the legislation was written properly.
Not good if the legislation was written badly.
@dan @Tea
Not a lawyer, but I gather that OSA would apply and instance owners would need to comply.
Neil Brown from Decoded.Legal wrote a huge summary of info at https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/ .
IFTAS has another collection of resources https://connect.iftas.org/library/legal-regulatory/online-safety-act/
It is bad. Host outside, have no one on staff from the uk.
If you want to try to comply there are resources around but it’s a lot of paperwork