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Cedric
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Damn, this is not good. We still need forums, it's vital for our content discovery. This new law sure does no good.
Cedric
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ThomasW
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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 that popular websites in Poland have decided to modify their websites for 24hrs to protest. A lot of the websites have put some kind of a spotlight effect on top of them to basically obscure their content and had an information that this is how the web may end up looking like if ACTA comes into effect.
I believe English wikipedia, Reddit and Mozilla have temporarily shut down to protest American SOPA and PIPA law (I have no clue what that was).
IMO This is what should have been done to show it may kill the "small" web.
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fdk
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There has been a huge overreaction on part of some admins to this, more so than I expected.
Granted, as I've previously mentioned, the requirements of the Online Safety Act could lead to further changes to the law that will place more responsibilities on website owners in the future, but for the time being, the only thing that was enacted for most was the need to have a risk assessment in place. Yes, a good risk assessment would probably take you a few hours to write, but it's not a huge time investment as a one-time thing, that you just then need to review once a year or if you make a significant change to the way your forum is run.
Granted, as I've previously mentioned, the requirements of the Online Safety Act could lead to further changes to the law that will place more responsibilities on website owners in the future, but for the time being, the only thing that was enacted for most was the need to have a risk assessment in place. Yes, a good risk assessment would probably take you a few hours to write, but it's not a huge time investment as a one-time thing, that you just then need to review once a year or if you make a significant change to the way your forum is run.
