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A couple here but lots of these shut down come the main event
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LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
I think your risk is likely zero
Personally I'd say the risk is nearly zero but not zero and it's that tiny gap which is going to be the issue for some (not all).
The vast majority are just going to be able to carry on fine, a few may come to Ofcom's attention and never get followed up, an even smaller number may have to jump through some hoops or end up closing their site.
But there's probably going to be a small number of examples being made. Someone not doing something quite as expected, someone at ofcom having a bad day or ofcom needing a sacrificial lamb to hold up and say this is what happens if you don't comply.
We've seen it recently with train fare penalties. Prosecutions for people who missed the small print and saved a couple of pound on their fares. Hugely disproportionate but once you're in the system you're screwed.
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LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
If the main concern is a penalty of £18 million it is pretty clear this simply can't happen.
If you read back in the thread you'll see that there isn't as much concern about that. Setting up as a company or similar will limit liability there.
The greater concern is the possibility of senior management being criminally liable.
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Is it just me or does the Royal Mail postbox finder not work for other people too? I've tried multiple devices (desktop and mobile) and browsers and after entering my address nothing happens.
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LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
This is the view of the guy who runs the football messageboard I'm on:
My gut feeling is that due to the brilliant moderation on this site we already remove offensive "content" and have the complaints process covered, we just need to document what we do and submit the assessment. Since the beginning we've been treading a fine line between functionality on this site and keeping out spam and other malicious content.
If we are deemed to have breached the rules we can remove the offensive material quickly but thanks to the many posters who report these things to the moderators I reckon it would be gone before a complaint was processed anyway.
The only people who'll be impacted by this is are me and Tony. I'm going to have to work with him to document what the moderators do. I'm the one that will need to do the assessment and pay any fines should they arise. I'm counting on everyone to make sure that we never get to that point. I also want to re-iterate my thanks to all of the people who have helped to moderate this board through the years to keep us on the right side of the law and as a place where we can have respectful discussions even with those who hold different views to our own.
They are very proactive on moderation, helped by a no politics rule.
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LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
In a weird full circle a football board I post on has concerns due to a Sunderland football board saying they'll be closing and linking back to here
https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/the-end-of-the-forum-is-nigh.1646227/There's going to be a lot of football messageboards out there with the same kind of worry
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LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
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leave your domain with Gandi and set the MX records (and a few others like SPF) to the values given to you by your mail provider.
Cheers, it sounds like this is what I want to do as there is some other stuff I changed in Gandi and I can't remember what that was.
Better do some googling using those terms.
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I have a domain with Gandi and also have an email account attached to that domain, also with Gandi.
So far as I can tell, I'm waiting to hear back from their support, they have increased the price of the email service from £3/year to £55/year. I assume I can use another service for email and still link it to my domain, if so how? It's one of those things where searching for it seems to assume you already know how to do it.
Also, any suggestions on who to use? Everything currently gets swept in to gmail so storage isn't important. Ability to have multiple aliases/a catch-all is the main thing.
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LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
This seemed like a fairly high bar before anything serious happens:
Enforcement
If you’re found not to be complying with the OSA, Ofcom will notify you and ask you to fix it first (a “provisional notice of contravention”). If you don’t, they have the ability to fine you up to 10% of worldwide revenue or £18m (through a “confirmation decision”). The purpose of these fines is to act as a deterrent, not to put you out of business.
If a service doesn’t comply with a confirmation decision, and Ofcom believes the risk of harm is sufficiently high, they can deploy “business disruption measures”, by ordering ISPs, service providers, or app stores to block the service.
If you fail to comply with a requirement in the confirmation decision, and the requirement relates to children’s online safety, you can be prosecuted (s138). Corporate officers can be made personally liable for these offences (s202).
It all seems quite the ballache to comply though
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Serious Eats is what I was thinking of roughly following
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LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
I wouldn't say the financial risk is the big issue, a fair few ways around that as you've suggested.
The issue is the individual liability of "senior management" (which I'd guess would be those in charge of maintaining the servers/code, moderation, etc), in particular potential criminal charges.
The chance of that happening is probably negligible but non-zero.
I guess there could potentially be a structure with no "senior management" and all decisions taken collectively but it seems difficult in reality.
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TK Maxx website is full of Folk stuff including loads of over shirts.
So much stuff on there that it seems a bit curious.
https://www.tkmaxx.com/uk/en/search?st=Folk&sort=&facets=&page=0