UK online safety regulation

[NightWash]

Hi,

just wanted to announce that I am currently "investigating" the upcoming regulation act in the UK: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/ ... nto-force/

So far, I don't think that this forum will be affected, but you never know (its not hosted in the UK and - at least from my point of view - it is really clean). I have seen a couple of sites shutting down because of this act. As I am not a native english speaker, I sure have troubles to understand the impact of this regulation. It looks like always - a stupid bullshit bingo made by politicians to protect children online (which is a good intention) that will bring a lot of unmanageable load and risk to everyone on the (UK?) internet. Also, as usual, they will not even nearly reach the intended goal. It will be a long way for political decisions and technical reality to find a good match. What I have seen so far is just a typical "all will be better" with AI and hashes and all that money we will throw at tech companies to build us that big red solution button we are all waiting for...which won't happen.

Also I fear that they will use this as a crowbar to penetrate all of UKs citizen privacy even more. Because, you know, they need to protect the children (and the music/movie industry and the tax office and so on and so on). Be careful out there. Lets hope that this is all not as intrusive as it currently looks like.

Cheers

NightWash