JohnValentine

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• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 3 days, 23 hours

  

  On the face of it, that seems to put the onus on the forum owner to allow a level of freedom of expression equivalent to general UK law. You know, the legal framework that allows these fascist mofos to demonstrate in the streets:

  That's a griefers' charter if ever these was one.

• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 5 days, 17 hours

  

  As Velocio has pointed out, it doesn't matter what the Act is aimed at if some berk can weaponise it to cause them grief.

  It's like a hand grenade. It might not have been thrown at you, but if you're standing 10 metres from the intended target you're still in deep shit.

• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 5 days, 17 hours

  

  Well this massively sucks, and I've never even been a participant here – followed a link from Reddit. But I've always been aware of the great community here and at one point tried to persuade TPTB at Future to look into licensing microcosm to run the forums on BikeRadar.

  I wonder if Myles 'Obscenity Lawyer' Jackman would be interested in getting involved. This is exactly what he was talking about when he said “Pornography is the canary in the coal mine of free speech.” It's almost as though, unable to deal with Mindgeek, the last government decided to just make it impossible to run a user-participation website in the UK without massive corporate backing.

  I really hope a solution can be found that preserves this community that's obviously incredibly important to a lot of people.

  All the best!