Neil Brown1d ago

New blogpost:

"What number of UK users constitutes a 'significant number' for the purposes of the Online Safety Act 2023?"

tl;dr: Ofcom seems to regard a service as having a “significant” number of UK users if it has more than 855 monthly active users and fewer than 50,000 monthly active users, but exactly where the boundary is remains unclear.

https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/03/what-number-of-uk-users-constitutes-a-significant-number-for-the-purposes-of-the-online-safety-act-2023/

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What number of UK users constitutes a 'significant number' for the purposes of the Online Safety Act 2023?

Ofcom seems to regard a service as having a significant number of UK users if it has more than 855 monthly active users and fewer than 50,000 monthly active users, but exactly where the boundary is remains unclear.

Show threadDaniel
@neil fyi, the bullet points seem to have gone wonky. on my firefox browser they're shown inline in one big paragraph instead of starting new lines
Mar 24 at 2:21pmWeb
Show threadNeil Brown1d ago

@dan

Thanks - yes, rebuilding to fix that.