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Ofcom has said that for small sites, the costs of complying โ€œare likely to be negligible or in the small thousands at mostโ€.

Deluded. Say goodbye to UK forums and forums serving the UK.

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Hamster forum and local residentsโ€™ websites shut down by new internet laws

Scope and scale of Online Safety Act likened to Chinaโ€™s โ€˜great firewallโ€™ as small websites struggle to comply
James Titcomb (The Telegraph)
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Lunar ๐Ÿ›ธ โ™พ
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The baffling part is that they assume small site admins and forum owners have "small thousands" just tucked away somewhere
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Sudden
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I fucking hate what the internet has become. The vast majority of the evils that come from the net come from large centralised organisations, and in response they pass laws that are trivial for large centralised organisations to comply with, and crippling for small groups. It's mandatory centralisation.
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@Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ The fact that they think that "in the small thousands at mostโ€ is negligible is completely out of touch.

What percentage of revenue is that for a forum that produces ยฃ0 (zero) revenue? My calculator says something about dividing by zero.

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@david_chisnall A good sign, though, that the conservative press which usually cheerleads โ€˜think of the children!โ€™ moral crusades for internet censorship is taking note of the negative effects of this Act
@David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
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InsertUser
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"in the small thousands at most"

If Ofcom expect hobbyist to have a few thousand in their back pocket just for incidental costs of running something then they're clearly paying their staff way too much. Come to think of it, are they hiring?

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they do not, and I've given them one chance to prove themselves and they have/will fail.

I knew Steve Reed wouldn't reply, he's on the Front Bench.

#SteveReedMP #Labour

#labour #stevereedmp

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