The Online Safety Act 2023

What are the odds the site will close?

In the short term 0%. In the long term… I have no idea.

I hope that going after indie blog sites will be like trying to empty the ocean with a spoon.

Found a summary of the act (on the gov.uk website), but I haven’t found anything about what we’re supposed to do (registration wise)

Do you have any links?

Ofcom has offered some guiendence: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/Online-Safety/check-how-to-comply/

On reflection, I think I may have over-worried. Risk assmements are boring but doable. I’ll see if someone publishes a template.

In all honesty, there must be thousands of UK based / managed blogs. I don’t see how Ofcom would be able to police all of them

There are over 450 million WordPress blogs alone. They want it to apply world-wide and that’s just too many to deal with.

The UK Online Safety Act 2023 makes it the responsibility of site owners to carry out a laundry list of protection behaviours. The UK Government has failed to say if this act applies to blogs. It has been clear that it applies to all websites with UK users. As usual, the UK government leapt in […]

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