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

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• vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Link to the actual forum announcement:

  www.lfgss.com/conversations/401475/

  Quote from it:

  On Sunday 16th March 2025 (the last day prior to the Act taking effect) I will delete the virtual servers hosting LFGSS and other communities, and effectively immediately end the approximately 300 small communities that I run, and the few large communities such as LFGSS.

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• Melody@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seems like it’s time to start Geo-Blocking UK users. Ain’t nobody with an independent site got the time nor money to deal with the UK’s OSA laws.

  Until this overbroad act is protested on the world stage; neither Brits themselves, nor their liberal leaders will prioritize repealing it. They’ll just shrug hopelessly and blame it on their Tories; much like Americans blame our own Republicans.

  If you run a small community website and you have worries about this; make it felt. Countries that enact laws like this should be rebuffed; and their people excluded as much as is necessary to ensure full malicious compliance with those laws.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Libs gonna push and push to censor TikTok, etc… Until the precedent comes back to haunt them.

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  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is OSA in the UK, not KOSA in the US.

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• InevitableList@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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