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@gamingonlinux I've still not heard back from my MP Steve Reed, about the letter I sent to him about this.
Shower of bastards.
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“I’ve just closed the forum of a small classic car club because we don’t have the time or capacity to ensure compliance with only volunteers. Meta will benefit, because we will, reluctantly, move to using a Facebook page”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112834
#OnlineSafetyAct #ofcom
Dropsafe · “I’ve just closed the forum of a small classic car club because we don’t have the time or capacity to ensure compliance with only volunteers. Meta will benefit, because we will, reluctantly, move to using a Facebook page”
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“There is something deeply wrong when a law passed with cross-party consensus & endorsed by Britain’s most trusted charities has made it impossible to run an internet forum for hamster owners”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112832
#OnlineSafetyAct #hamsters #ofcom
#Ofcom launches investigation into #GBNews over #LGBTQ+ slur https://goodlawproject.org/ofcom-launches-investigation-into-gb-news-over-lgbtq-slur/ #GoodLawProject "launched an online tool helping the public make a complaint to Ofcom about this latest example of GB News platforming toxic rhetoric. A record 71,582 people filed complaints in this way – almost 17,000 more than the 54,595 who complained about Piers Morgan in 2021."
Good Law Project · Ofcom launches investigation into GB News over LGBTQ+ slur | Good Law ProjectBroadcast that received more than 70,000 complaints over a lie linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia will be subject to a formal investigation.
Wondering if this ruling will give Starmer the excuse to Trump style "chop" OFCOM...
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There's still time to put pressure on the UK government.
The UK Secretary of State has the power to exempt small, safely moderated websites from the Online Safety duties.
We need urgent change to protect net plurality, rather than further consolidating power in monopoly platforms. We need competition for a safer Internet.
Write to your MP (UK) #SaveOurSites 
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Open Rights GroupSave our sites - Write to your MPSmall UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.
The UK Online Safety Act comes into effect today.
Its onerous duties may cause many small sites, blogs and fedi instances to shut down or geoblock UK users when faced with potential fines and penalties.
This won't keep children safe. It'll benefit large platforms like Facebook and X that are laying waste to content moderation.
The Register · It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board
Ofcom’s risk assessment deadline has passed, and online platforms must now take action to protect users from illegal content and activity occurring on their platforms. Significant fines await those who fail.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news-analysis/2025/new-online-safety-act-measures-come-into-force
www.computing.co.ukNew Online Safety Act measures come into forceOfcom’s risk assessment deadline has passed, and online platforms must now take action to protect users from illegal content and activity occurring on their platforms. ...
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When it comes to blogs, Ofcom says one thing, the UK Online Safety Act says another.
This lack of clarity over whether blogs with comments are exempt will push small sites to shut down completely.
We need the UK government to tighten up the definitions and exemptions in the Act.
Read our explainer for more detail 
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/save-our-sites-deadline-17-march/
Open Rights GroupSave our Sites: Deadline 17 MarchIncredible as it may seem, thanks to the Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites are closing down by 17 March, rather than face threats of fines that could lose their operators their homes.
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Under the UK Online Safety Act, small blogs, forums and fedi instances are faced with disproportionate requirements to:
️ Check if they have UK users
️ Do a risk assessment on whether kids might access the content, or if CSAM or terrorist material might be posted in the comments
️ Put themselves at the risk of fines, and even prison sentences, if they fail to comply with Ofcom’s future directives
New #Documentation: Geo-blocking UK users in #BunnyCDN
I've got a site that, I think, #Ofcom _could_ decide falls under Part 5 of the #OnlineSafetyAct (actually, more accurately, I can't say definitively enough that they wouldn't).
I'm not willing to pay any money to the Age Verification industry, or let them have visitor data.
So, I've decided to move the site definitively out of scope by ensuring it doesn't have UK users
The post describes how to geoblock the UK
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/general/geoblocking-uk-users-with-bunnycdn.html
www.bentasker.co.uk · Geoblocking the UK with BunnyCDN
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End-to-end encryption = online safety. It keeps what we send on messaging apps secure from hackers and predators.
Tell Ofcom NOT to implement message scanning powers in their consultation.
You have until 5pm TODAY!
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text
Open Rights Group48 Hours to tell Ofcom: 'Practice safe text'The vital cybersecurity tool of end-to-end encryption is under threat. Here's why: Ofcom are currently running a consultation on their framework for implementing the 'Spy Clause' section 121 of the Online Safety Act. This clause gives Ofcom the power to issue a technical notice to a provider, and require them to use a specific technology to scan everyone's messages for terrorist material or child sexual exploitation materials (CSEM). This consultation closes at 5pm on Monday 10th March. The problem is there is no safe scanning technology that exists.
Do you want hackers and predators to slide into your DMs?
That's what would happen if message scanning tech is forced onto messaging apps.
Ofcom's consultation on powers that'd break end-to-end encryption closes on Monday!
Use our tool to tell them #PracticeSafeText 
#e2ee #encryption #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol #cybersecurity #security #privacy #ofcom #whatsapp #signal
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text
Open Rights Group48 Hours to tell Ofcom: 'Practice safe text'The vital cybersecurity tool of end-to-end encryption is under threat. Here's why: Ofcom are currently running a consultation on their framework for implementing the 'Spy Clause' section 121 of the Online Safety Act. This clause gives Ofcom the power to issue a technical notice to a provider, and require them to use a specific technology to scan everyone's messages for terrorist material or child sexual exploitation materials (CSEM). This consultation closes at 5pm on Monday 10th March. The problem is there is no safe scanning technology that exists.
Save Encryption. Save the World
Only by blocking message scanning technology on messaging apps can we ensure online safety!
End-to-end encryption prevents predators and hackers from weeding their way into our private lives.
We must #PracticeSafeText
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-case-for-encryption/
Open Rights GroupThe Case for EncryptionSpying on private messages has long been on the security services’ wish list.
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Message scanning tech on everyone's phone would expose us to dangerous new threats.
How does that achieve online safety?
Tell Ofcom NOT to break end-to-end encryption in their consultation, ending Monday 10 March.
Use our tool to say #PracticeSafeText
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text
Open Rights Group48 Hours to tell Ofcom: 'Practice safe text'The vital cybersecurity tool of end-to-end encryption is under threat. Here's why: Ofcom are currently running a consultation on their framework for implementing the 'Spy Clause' section 121 of the Online Safety Act. This clause gives Ofcom the power to issue a technical notice to a provider, and require them to use a specific technology to scan everyone's messages for terrorist material or child sexual exploitation materials (CSEM). This consultation closes at 5pm on Monday 10th March. The problem is there is no safe scanning technology that exists.
Time's running out: Ofcom's message scanning consultation closes at 5pm on Monday 10 March
End-to-end encryption on all messaging apps is under threat
Ofcom are currently running a consultation on this
This clause allows Ofcom to issue a technical notice to a messaging service provider like WhatsApp & Signal
Requiring them to use a specific technology to scan EVERYONE's messages for terrorist material or CSEM.
But no safe scanning technology exists
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text
Open Rights Group48 Hours to tell Ofcom: 'Practice safe text'The vital cybersecurity tool of end-to-end encryption is under threat. Here's why: Ofcom are currently running a consultation on their framework for implementing the 'Spy Clause' section 121 of the Online Safety Act. This clause gives Ofcom the power to issue a technical notice to a provider, and require them to use a specific technology to scan everyone's messages for terrorist material or child sexual exploitation materials (CSEM). This consultation closes at 5pm on Monday 10th March. The problem is there is no safe scanning technology that exists.
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No safe message scanning technology exists.
These powers would force a cybersecurity weakness onto apps like WhatsApp and Signal.
Hackers, predators and spies could crowbar their way into everything you send.
Tell Ofcom: End-to-end Encryption Means Online Safety https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text
CLOSES Monday 10 March at 5pm.
Time is Running Out to Save Encryption 
Ofcom is consulting on implementing message scanning powers in the UK Online Safety Act.
This would break end-to-end encryption on the messaging apps we all use!
CLOSES Monday 10 March, 5pm.
Use our tool to tell Ofcom #PracticeSafeText
ACT NOW 
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text
Open Rights Group48 Hours to tell Ofcom: 'Practice safe text'The vital cybersecurity tool of end-to-end encryption is under threat. Here's why: Ofcom are currently running a consultation on their framework for implementing the 'Spy Clause' section 121 of the Online Safety Act. This clause gives Ofcom the power to issue a technical notice to a provider, and require them to use a specific technology to scan everyone's messages for terrorist material or child sexual exploitation materials (CSEM). This consultation closes at 5pm on Monday 10th March. The problem is there is no safe scanning technology that exists.
A look at email-based age estimation, the new kid on the age-assurance block.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2025/email-based-age-estimation-privacy-preserving-solution
www.computing.co.ukEmail-based age estimation: A privacy preserving solution?Verifymy’s Lina Ghazal on the newest kid on the age assurance block
