LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
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Avoiding the "giving false information" point would require everyone to have to submit significant documentation to prove their identity, and this would need to be held somewhere, which is unworkable for many other reasons
It also doesn't work for me who operates the site, I no longer use my birth name, and more of my identity is now as Dee. I wouldn't provide my deadname to be in a public register, and yet to not do so is also a crime under the Online Safety Act.
Being a trans person running a moderately sized platform for forums has unexpected consequences it seems.
It's my own fault, I put "London" in the name and made it appeal to people within an area, rather than calling it fixieskidders.com and just not having a clue where anyone lived or accessed from.
Velocio-
Didn't you say it was quick to change domain name... ?
fixieskidders.com is taken, but doaskid.com is free 🙃
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I no longer use my birth name, and more of my identity is now as Dee. I wouldn't provide my deadname to be in a public register, and yet to not do so is also a crime under the Online Safety Act.
Don't know how you feel about letting go of the deadname but you don't need a deed poll to legally have a new name - technically using a new name is all that is legally required and a deed poll/marriage cert/whatever official document is commonly accepted is evidence. So being registered as Dee in the register of services would arguably not be providing information which is false in a material respect.
kboy
youClown
Not really. Even with this in place it does nothing to stop a troll from joining, giving false information, signing whatever binding agreement is necessary to be able to post, and then doing everything they can to cause the site to fall foul of the act causing maximum hassle for everyone involved (including Velocio).
Avoiding the "giving false information" point would require everyone to have to submit significant documentation to prove their identity, and this would need to be held somewhere, which is unworkable for many other reasons.
That, as I understand it, is the biggest concern. It is very little work for someone to do something pretty much anonymously that can cause an imperial fuckton of problems for the person/people running the site.
(This has always been the case, but the OSA makes the possible consequences several orders of magnitude larger.)