Comment on Is this the first casualty of the Online Safety Act? An online cycling community web forum with over 60K users shutting down

InevitableList@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

We have the power to fine companies up to £18m or 10% of their qualifying worldwide revenue – whichever is greater – and in very serious cases we can apply for a court order to block a site in the UK.

Firstly I’d expect regulators to focus on the big fish rather than this minnow. Secondly losing 10% of revenue isn’t a huge deal whilst any fines larger than that would get the entire news media rallying behind you. Shutting down the site is premature to say the least.

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