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I get this completely though as a non techie and anarcho-syndicalist I prefer running the forum as a collective even though this means working within 'the man's' directives
It is worth persuing both routes at this stage and to do so you would have to support / advise any governance working group (which I'm sure you will :}
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my personal belief, which is certainly open to being challenged, is that the compliance route is hard today... it's not clear if we're Low or Medium risk, and we're almost certainly a Multi-risk service... it's not just completing a risk assessment, it's then about taking steps to mitigate the risk.
the steps we'd have to take are not just completing paperwork, but a mix of people, tech, process. that's a larger burden, and still some risk and the liability remains.
the tech option is attractive to me as a possible solution others take... because I know tech. and I know that no part of this service really requires any knowledge of location or nationality of the person accessing it... the only thing that grants it that are the person running it (me, I'm in London), where it's hosted (in London), the name of the site (London again), and the self-declared most visible users (London)... but LFGSS is huge, and it's not been about just London for a long while... and 3 of those things are trivial to change, I can stop being involved, the service can be hosted elsewhere, the name can change... and the last, where users declare that they are, maybe don't do that. as a technical exercise to put websites beyond the reach of a jurisdiction, there are lots of examples of this working... it does seem crazy to run a platform of forums as if it's the pirate bay... but this is what happens, when laws have side effects, things go underground, I have a better idea of how to do that and hand it over to someone, than I do of how to make the service fully compliant according to my current understanding of what would be needed.
of course a technical solution appeals to a techie.