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I'm still don't understand why there's a need for hosting the site outside the UK and all the rigmarole that entails since most users will be in the UK
The point would be to shutter all UK focused sites (hyper specific and 100% UK such as Islington, Brixton, etc).
And to instead acknowledge that LFGSS has a global audience (yesterday 50% of all traffic was from the USA alone, about 20% of traffic is currently from Tor where I've no idea where it's from)... rename LFGSS to something that isn't London specific, and let it just be a site on the internet, not a site aimed at UK users. It's almost hilarious how many people posting about how sad it is are not even in the UK.
Then, alongside the large international fora in other languages, such as Pignole Fixe, etc... to basically go "no staff in UK, no servers in UK, not aimed at UK people"... and if the Europeans who pick this up do it in Germany and to comply with strict data laws there just disable all logging of country of access, etc...
... well, that would not be a UK service to UK users run by UK staff... in fact, it's way outside of the OSA and UK reach... but only by shuttering the explicitly UK oriented sites.
And honestly, if any user ever says they're in the UK... they should just be banned. Feel free to talk about the place, but internet users should be users of the internet.
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I'm still don't understand why there's a need for hosting the site outside the UK and all the rigmarole that entails since most users will be in the UK.
If we do establish a legal entity underpinned by cooperative principles to bear the liability
And work on compliance with the new online safety guidance using the tools to be published in January with a group of people on here, legal and governance
And sort out how and who from us work on monitoring, moderating and reporting
And sort out the finances to run the forum
And mainly ensure @Velocio 's role is solely advisory and they bear no liability or responsibility
Then we're OK.
From the skill set offered by people on this thread we should be able to cover these bases, or finally conclude that we can't.