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How are you dealing with the UK's Online Safety Act, that comes into effect this March? (futurology.today)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Companies will have three months from when the guidance is finalised to carry out risk assessments and make relevant changes to safeguard users.........."Platforms are supposed to remove illegal content like promoting or facilitating suicide, self-harm, and child sexual abuse."

This is already impacting futurology.today - one of the Mods is British, and because of this law doesn't feel comfortable continuing. As they have back-end expertise with hosting, if they go, we may have to shut down the whole site.

How easy is it to block British IP addresses? Would that be enough to circumvent any legal issues, if no one else involved in running the site is British and it is hosted somewhere else in the world?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is already impacting futurology.today - one of the Mods is British, and because of this law doesn’t feel comfortable continuing. As they have back-end expertise with hosting, if they go, we may have to shut down the whole site.

Its good news that they are merely a mod and not an admin / op, then! That's why documenting and transfer of knowledge is important! If they don't feel capable of dealing with a stupid law, they should make themselves unnecessary to your community ASAP! Have them prepare to step down from the role by documenting everything that a replacement needs to be able to do, then as soon as another mod can test that the documentation works, derole them if that's what they want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I misphrased, they are an Admin/Op, and essential.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Even more important then to get them deessentialized if they're already feeling like leaving.