Interesting thing I have just noticed - when you're leaving a facebook group which I believe has UK set as location, it offers you to report the group and UK Online Safety Act is mentioned there.
I think a few minutes is a massive underestimation.
This law should have never come into effect in a form like this. I have no idea if there was any public consultation, but it all reminds me a bit of ACTA in 2012. Granted I don't exactly remember what the deal was with that, but I remember...
I think GDPR didn't require any kind of risk assessment or other BS of similar kind, did it?
The whole issue here is... It's doable, but why would a hobbyist, who runs the forum for fun and doesn't get anything out of it, do it.
This will do f all in regards to protecting minors. If they...
I'll be honest I don't really know what the whole thing is about, but based on experience with all those kind of regulations, the small ones are the ones that suffer the most.
Companies like FB etc. have lawyers to deal with that and tools already in place that may just need some tweaking. For...
I don't know if it's just the way I see this, but it seems initially this thread was more like "Not a big deal" and now it's more like "Yeah, this is annoying". :ROFLMAO:
I think the main issue with the whole thing is: It's as usual people, who have no clue about the internet, deciding how the internet should look like or "be run".
It's just creating unnecessary obligations such as doing this risk assessment when we know it won't change anything, because those...
Forums are privately owned websites (most of them at least I believe). This means whoever runs the forum can decide to revoke your right to access their website for whatever reason they want. This may sound harsh, but that's the truth.
With great power comes great responsibility. A good leader...
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