École des Bro-Arts4d ago

Ofcom is undertaking a paid survey for people who work for companies in scope of the UK #OnlineSafetyAct. If any of y'all are running Mastodon/Akkoma/Pixelfed/etc servers and have some kind of legal entity for doing so, drop me a line and I'll make an introduction.

I'm gonna ask if that's *just* companies or if any community forum counts.

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@aphyr We're constantly told by people "Ofcom have no choice in this, they're just poor innocent victims that have to enforce a law set down by idiots". Frankly, why even bother engaging with them if that's the case? Reminded of a famous lecture - "Don't Talk To The Police".
Mar 18 at 11:59amWeb
Show threadÉcole des Bro-Arts4d ago

@ret erm... both of us have talked a fair bit, publicly, about our struggles with the OSA, right? Weren't we both in their webinars and meetings?

I feel like the cat's probably out of the bag there haha

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@aphyr for sure. I think I’ve been jaded by any involvement I have had with them though. It’s just staffed by people who either believe their own hype and are actively invested in this attack on freedom of expression, or people who are ambivalent and just there for the cushy job/pension. Talking to them has achieved precisely nothing so far, try as many of us did to change things. I think energy is better spent either protecting ourselves from them (driving more people to decentralised platforms and out of their reach) or undermining their efforts in any legal way possible.
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@ret sure, that's fine. I didn't mind getting $60 to tell them the same stuff I wrote them in an email though, haha.