Kate Jul 16, 2025
Small UK websites, user-to-user services, and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risk assessments, registration, and fines thanks to the UK's Online Safety Act - Write to your MP: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp 💻 #UKPolitics #UKAgeVerification #BigBrother #OnlinePrivacy #UKPol #OnlineSafetyAct
Save our sites - Write to your MP

Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.

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Show threadKate 

Signed up to a Lemmy server while I had my VPN on, only to find that when I went to use the site on my phone (with VPN turned off) I was blocked, because I live in the UK. 🤬

This bullshit is going to create a 2-tier internet; the VPN haves, and the have-nots (until VPNs get blocked too).

You want to protect children? Teach them and their guardians how to be safe online, don't go scorched earth policy!

💻 #NordVPN #VPN #UKPolitics #UKAgeVerification #BigBrother #OnlinePrivacy #OnlineSafetyAct

Jul 16, 2025 at 7:47pmWeb
Show threadLongbottleJul 17, 2025
@DolphinSeeker Since when has the UK ever been one to treat anything *reasonably*?
Show threadKate Jul 17, 2025
@longbottle like it won't be long till your affair-having heavily-closeted fake puritans come for your Internet access "for the sake of the children"
Show threadLongbottleJul 17, 2025
@DolphinSeeker @longbottle It's just another repressive regime, it's just dressed up in a fancy suit. No difference in how it takes rights and freedoms away from people.
Show threadEstarriol, Terrorist DragonJul 17, 2025

@DolphinSeeker

the bill is nothing to do with safefty and all to do with gathering even more online data for use.