IFTAS is working on providing support for the UK #OnlineSafetyAct and its impact on decentralised providers.
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IFTAS is working on providing support for the UK #OnlineSafetyAct and its impact on decentralised providers. We are building a page of links and resources here: https://connect.iftas.org/library/legal-regulatory/online-safety-act/ - please let us know if you want us to add something.
We are in contact with Ofcom, and are working on a OSA Guide (similar to our DSA Guide).
Some accounts to follow as OSA rolls out: @neil @russss @rachelcoldicutt
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Amazing - I've added your page to my list of resources here:
https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/
(Site is very nascent!)
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@neil @iftas @russss @rachelcoldicutt Fantastic! I've added a link to your page that links to the IFTAS page, to the IFTAS page that links to your page.
Hopefully there is now an infinite loop pingback happening that will gradually take down the entire Internet and we can all enjoy an extra long weekend.
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@neil those were the days...
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@iftas @neil @russss @rachelcoldicutt I just still find it very sad, was chatting to the folk who run the Islington CC forum and of course that's one of the ones I'm shutting down, and they're just looking to move to Discord. the Espruino forum will also close and the person who runs that project may consider it an end to the whole project as it's hard to run these indie / craft ventures without an open forum where people can discuss beyond the boundaries of the business about what they're doing with the things. I'm closing a huge French forum because it's not economically viable to run that one without also running LFGSS, and I have to close LFGSS because I can't meet the technical requirements that will be needed.
all that is happening is consolidation onto major providers.
I'm really hoping that on the fediverse at least, that a grand scale disobedience, the sheer number of instances, and the decentralised nature, results in a the Act being ignored.
I hope that the OSA goes the way of the 4 separate Gin Acts which were all widely ignored... although of course, unfortunately the final Gin Act did take effect and resulted in 150+ years of only the large established Gin companies being able to produce Gin... and this is what it feels like, consolidation by law, and the resulting extermination of the hobby instance.
for the small fedi instances that have asked me whether it applies to them... it does, but I've recommended offshoring and using the privacy of DNS, the small size of their instance, and lack of any obvious identifying information that suggests it's UK related... to basically ignore the law... which is what I'll be doing for the much smaller things I help give time to but didn't feel I could do to the moderately sized things that had very clear association to the UK.
it's just sad, that's how I feel about it. oh well
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I just still find it very sad
You are not the only one. I was saying to someone only this morning how genuinely gutting this is, and how many vibrant, helpful communities will be shut down unnecessarily.
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@neil @dee @russss @rachelcoldicutt I have to believe that the core desire is "social media not run by silicon valley", and we have that answer for UK, EU, Aus, Can and others. The regulation we are seeing worldwide is in opposition to/pushback on centralised social that blusters over local social norms and cultures. Meta/X others are being clear they do not like nations and cultures asking for non-US approaches to speech/association.
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@neil @dee @russss @rachelcoldicutt We need to be clear when talking with regulators and lawmakers we are an option that offers everything they actually want as an outcome, we just need room to breathe so we can get there.
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@neil @dee @russss @rachelcoldicutt Behold the decentralisation!
Every one of these servers is running rules and moderation in concert with their audience, their stakeholders, their norms.
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@iftas @neil @dee @russss @rachelcoldicutt another thing to bear in mind is ActivityPub has one moderator for every 1200 active accounts, far higher than most if not all centralised services - vital to reinforce this understanding with regulators who might be worried we are the wild west.
ref: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-has-significantly-fewer-moderation-staff/714650/
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