- 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
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What does this mean for Lemmy servers based in the UK, and for Lemmy instances that have users from the UK?
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
Privacy in the UK is dead.
