LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
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Not sure gov will ever try to pursue forums as this one
You've got to put this into context... I too doubt they would ever pursue a site like this.
But I've received multiple death threats, had stalkers, and so on... from people who were moderated against precisely because they were threatening and a risk to others.
What this Act does is weaponise OfCom for use by those people who I would happily ban or moderate again... it gives an extremely powerful weapon to those people to seek revenge for having been banned... and that risk is carried by myself, individually, and totally.
There is a tiny risk enforcement would cover us... except for the fact that these are internet forums and those who I moderated and who have confronted me in real life, etc... those will now have the means to do something... they just need to complain to OfCom.
Anyone recall that time when I got sued by the BNP? Under this Act that would have succeeded and it would have ruined my life.
I've too much experience here to shrug it off as hypothetical when it is not.
Velocio-
Thanks. You have explained it clear enough for everyone to understand reasons why.
And I totally agree with you, whatever legal support you may muster from forum goers, there is always a schmuck out there with a bigger checkbook that can easily employ multiple lawyers - one of the reasons I did not pursue my law career, just can't stand spineless, no morals people.
Foreigner65
F..k, not the new I wanted to hear, that'll put a dumper on my big 6 zero celebrations couple of days later🙄. Not sure gov will ever try to pursue forums as this one, what with their not existent support team for anything, let alone something a bit more complicated like website.
But it is his decision as already mentioned ^ Ethereally grateful to @Velocio and the rest of the members, it was - and still is - an amazing journey into a rabbit hole of everything cycling.