LFGSS Collective

I've replied to it

if any user ever says they're in the UK... they should just be banned

where users declare that they are, maybe don't do that.

I could see that being a challenge

less of a challenge than the suggestion someone made of forcing everyone to VPN.

I kinda like the "user agreement that forces arbitration prior to any Ofcom involvement" route too... sorta combine all of the evil legal things together so that they cancel each other out.

this is likely wishful thinking, this wouldn't work... but I can hope.

Fair enough. I've not had much experience with sites that force VPN usage

The quote might have been in the other thread but the part about they will contact you with an opportunity to comply if something has been identified as breaking the rules, then if you don't respond, they'll start contacting your providers to get it shut down.
Isn't this still a concern even if you obfuscate who's running the site and from where. I get that having a minority UK user base should put it out of the remit of the bill but who's going to argue the case when they decide to enforce it?

You'd have to be in breach, then still fail to comply with the remediation and then the UK presumably has little power to shut foreign stuff down or it would at least be a pretty huge legal hassle anyway and it's not like we're Pirate Bay here.

I mean, they could demand ISPs block the site.... that's really about it. A vpn solves that.

So it's just "should be fine..."?

Are you assuming the admin(s) would leave the "illegal" content in place?

Yeah, but as you say that's easy to work around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_United_Kingdom

Depends if all the mods are as bad good as you

I can't see any content, especially something on Ofcom's radar, being worth leaving in place at the expense of the rest of the forum. It's not like this place is trying to prove some point about free speech.

On the name change – perhaps a bit erroneous and distracting from the real hurdles here. At one time it was indicative of localisation but it's easy to argue that the acronym has taken on it's own meaning and weight detached from it's originating nomenclature. My understanding is that it isn't likely a legal stick you can be beat with

Wait till you hear who owns most of British Telecom

Could do the whole 'recursive acronym' thing, where the L stands for LFGSS

rep

What?

LeFGSS

Well there's more than one London, anyone in London, Ontario want to take over ? :)

I reckon a good portion of the regular donors would be fine with a one-off larger upfront donation to help with the move and secure the financial future of it for at least a year coming? I'd be happy to pay upfront whatever I pay annually.

Is this like the EC1 collective?

(Sorry , nothing useful to add )

i don't know shit about tech but i do know a bit about risk assessment, compliance and dealing with regulators, albeit in a different sector.

happy to contribute time and funds such as situation allows.

one Mamnick chip fork away from LFGSS bingo

If I were doing this now, I would 100% set up an Open Collective

I’m a director of the new non profit that maintains Open Collective, and the largest host in the network (Open Source Collective). JF (who runs Open Collective Europe) is a racing cyclist too and I am sure he would host you. If not Open Source Collective is another option.

Completely up to the group who takes it on. OSC and OCEU work together in a cooperative of sorts.

They might as well, there's fuck all else to do there.