LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
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DMs are very likely going to be scanned
That in its self may not be legal under the ruling Roman Zakharov v. Russia if you have to weaken encryption to do it.
Another big problem is many of Ofcom new rules and the law itself are on very shaky legal grounds, So they may demand you do something, you then do it, but then the rules are taken down by a Judicial reviews and legal challenges.
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If they cannot find those resources then they should choose the route I've chosen and shutter it. The risk cannot be managed without modifications to the software, without understanding the legal stuff, and without ensuring it can be paid for.
I.e. DMs are very likely going to be scanned, which is likely a paid service and need more funds, and then it needs implementing... Alternatively the legal may recommend fully disabling DMs, which will also kill all of the classifieds section, so then the recommendation may be to recommend ways to have private communication elsewhere, etc.
There's a lot of implications of keeping there place running that revolve around managing the risk identified in the OSA risk assessment.
Whomever chooses to put their name to it has to really be sure they can follow through on all of this, acting like a company director, to steer the shop in the right direction and avoid shipwreck, otherwise it's just volunteering for pain, a role for masochists, and the pain primarily will fall on the individual.
For this person, and for the small team of other roles that support them, it's going to consume their lives for the next year or two. It's not really a part time commitment any longer.
Hence my decision... I can't do this full time, and I can't align what it would to have to become with my ethics (privacy focused), the combination of those factors makes this a very obvious choice for me.