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On the flip side of the #OnlineSafetyAct, my personal blog gets waaaay more traffic than woof.group. I've opted to geoblock the UK there. Quick implementation notes: https://aphyr.com/posts/379-geoblocking-the-uk-with-debian-nginx
Geoblocking the UK with Debian & Nginx

Do you use #hunting and #dating #apps ?
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Please tell me what you used and how your experience with these applications has been 📲

I would appreciate if you boost this #poll so we can share stories from different countries.

No
48.4%
Yes, what?
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You have just cummed all over his face. You...

leave it to him to clean
11.6%
smear it on his face
12.8%
let lick off your fingers
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lap & kiss into his mouth
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On the flip side of the #OnlineSafetyAct, my personal blog gets waaaay more traffic than woof.group. I've opted to geoblock the UK there. Quick implementation notes: https://aphyr.com/posts/379-geoblocking-the-uk-with-debian-nginx
@aphyr I was very wary about mentioning VPNs on my geoblock page, but I am also worried about how iffy the geoblocking can be… hmm.
@ret Yeah, it's such a shitshow. Some folks in Ireland reported this DB blocks them, so I feel an obligation to offer them a workaround.

@aphyr If there's anything this country's lawmakers love, it's imposing broad bureaucratic regulations and then failing to adequately exemplify compliance.

Bonus points if the penalties for non-compliance might feasibly sink smaller operators and individuals while being either difficult to apply or inconsequential to larger ones.

Sucks that this one actually got through, similar legislation has withered on the vine for lack of feasible implementation detail before.

@aphyr honest question understanding you are not a lawyer: does a blog with no comments section qualify as user-to-user? Isn’t like…the entirety of the internet user-to-user in that case?
@anderson_jon Honestly unclear. IANAL, but I think the hosting provider could be considered a user-to-user service, even if all they do is static HTML pages.
@aphyr that is absolutely insane. The idea I can’t just host my blog and if someone thinks something on it is porn, I can now be fined WAY TOO MUCH for like…a static web page that nobody can interact with, just read.

@aphyr @anderson_jon so as a Hosting Provider I've trying to grapple with how the definition of a user to user service doesn't apply to literally any company whose products allow IP traffic.

However I've decided that at least one of my Hosting companies is an Ancillary Service Provider and not a user-to-user provider due to the difficulties OFCOM would have in shutting down one of our customers if they didn't compel us to do it.

@anderson_jon @aphyr No. It's not U2U then.

Even with direct comments it's fine (specifically exempt). If you allow threading and don't pre-moderate, that could be in scope: https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/ra_blog_with_comments/

Sample illegal content risk assessment for a blog or website (e.g. WordPress) with comments - OnlineSafetyAct.co.uk

@aphyr So, if the UK/Ofcom starts targeting the Fediverse, server admins have at least three options:

* Geoblock the UK; or
* Block every server that allows sexful and other content that kids of UK must be protected from; or
* Ignore the #OnlineSafetyAct, and risk legal trouble.

Have I got this right?

@zenfin We opted to declare ourselves out of scope, but if Ofcom decides instances of our scale *are* in scope, yes, I believe those are essentially our only options. I haven't heard anything from mastodon.social, and they're almost certainly large enough to fall in scope, so right now it looks like they're choosing option C. https://blog.woof.group/announcements/out-of-scope-of-the-online-safety-act
Out of Scope of the Online Safety Act

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@zenfin @aphyr I think woof.group (if Ofcom decides they are in scope) is trickier as they specifically allow adult content.

Our instance doesn't and we've changed our terms: https://github.com/phpcommunity/policies/commit/a5539fde1b390709e0897b86385265314a1e866b

The CC-BY risk assessment is at https://github.com/derickr/online-safety-assessments/blob/main/mastodon-phpc.social.rst

I don't believe you'd need to proactively block servers that have sexful content, but rather remove actual illegal content that hits your server.

Ofcom also said that trouble is unlikely as long as you engage with them. I'd do an assessment.

Merge changes to implement Online Safety Act's ICU G1 · phpcommunity/policies@a5539fd

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@derickr @zenfin I'm not sure about that part. If phpc.social were to be found in scope, I believe you'd have to implement highly effective age assurance and take down public pages/APIs. Right now you can find porn pretty quickly on phpc.social:

@derickr @zenfin @aphyr Ofcom also said the exact opposite of that ref. sites hosting adult content in the session specifically about pornography.

I forget the exact wording but Hoskins (I believe) said that the first contact would be to initiate enforcement actions (paraphrased).

#4: Update from Ofcom webinar

Includes videos of the webinar, outlines a couple of major outstanding issues relating to Mastodon and proportionate enforcement, and suggests what ofcom might do next.

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@derickr @zenfin It was prior to that session. I believe @aphyr documented it here: https://blog.woof.group/announcements/#today-s-livestream-on-pornography

Bottom of that section.

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@derickr @ret @zenfin I was in that meeting and Ofcom's sessions the previous weeks, and I think we can safely say that Ofcom's public comms on likely enforcement are... confusing, haha. Ret's recalling Hosking's comments here: https://blog.woof.group/announcements/updates-on-the-osa
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In today's livestream (58:00), Ofcom's James Proudfoot told service providers, "If people reach out, what's useful is we can talk to you ...

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