2025-03-26 - OFCOM: "Advisory Letter: illegal content risk assessments - your duties under the Online Safety Act 2023"

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You won't be talking shit if you become the next dankula and have your bank account seized.
Just use the tor browser if you're that anal about using a VPN
I don't care I will not be cowered by the scum in London just because I want to read lolcow threads. Now I'll have to use the janky and slow Tor because of a letter from impotent dead gay empire.
 
I wonder if Sargon in his nice suit will talk about this on his locus eatters podcast. Or maybe count dankula will bring this up in his second channel. Would be quite suspect if they chose to be completely silent on this matter… Right?
He won't. Sargon is a person who will use the Kiwifarms as an uncited resource but he won't actually come out and say so. Or say anything when the forum runs into issues.

Ironically, when #dropkiwifarms was going down the it was the good Saar Saggar over at "The Hill" that came out the hardest in support of the Forum from a "general principles" stand point. Most all other Alt media types wouldnt touch it with a ten foot pole.
 
They might be able to get a civil judgment on it and then domesticate it locally. They generally wouldn't bother for stuff like traffic tickets or littering, but if they wanted to wave their tiny peckers around they could give it a try.

I think it would fare about as well as Saudi Arabia trying to enforce a blasphemy fine.
And I'd like to say the Federal Courts would never entertain such bullshit. But past experience says they most certainly would.
 
I hate my country so much. I can see a VPN subscription in my near future just to be able to say NIGGER without worrying about the local plod cuffing me (completely ignoring the paki rape squad behind them)
The anarcho-tyrannical condition that Bongistan is in can only be explained by deliberate malice toward its populace by the authorities. I’m surprised you guys haven’t overthrown your Rothschild-sucking leaders yet.
 
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The UK never ceases to amaze me on how stupid they are when it comes to everything. They had a golden opportunity to re-negotiate better conditions and re-establish themsleves as a global player in trade with Brexit, they fucked it up. The Tories had a golden opportunity with COVID to take a public hard line stance (pull a Thatcher) and use that as a chance to consolidate and keep in power for another couple of terms, they fucked it up. Starmer's Labor party has a chance to ease restrictions on a lot of issues and rebuild UK industry, and can pretty much coast on those two things alone, and here they are yet again fucking up.

I know people joke about British teeth, but maybe it was an early indication that the British will fuck up any sort of plan, even something as simple as a Dental plan.
 
What do you expect Brits to do about this, Captain Retard? We burned the entire country down last summer over how much we hate the government and without even touching on what they did to the rioters themselves, they imprisoned people for years for standing watching things unfold, or making socialmedia posts that remotely sympathise with rioters in response. People have families and jobs, they're scared shitless of what the government will do to them or their family if they try to protest anything again. The people in the UK live under a tyrannical regime that fucking hates them, your retarded logic is on par with hating people from the GDR or Soviet Union because they happened to be born into a system that exists to oppress them.
Hang MPs?

Funnily enough my VPN subscription had just run out.

I wasn't going to re-subscribe as the bastard gubment has slapped an extra 20% tax on those of us who choose not to risk our kids in publicly-funded schools.

Education above and beyond the indoctrination the state provide is now deemed a luxury in need of taxing.

The economy is tanking and nobody has any money.

But I need to sneed with my frens. ❤️
Trump needs to deport the shitskins, build the wall, and then offer asylum to white non-ginger Britbongs being oppressed for their political views.
 
Yes fuck the britbong government and protect the users, but what are they actually asking you to do? I went through their explanation plus their published guidance, and either I'm retarded or they are, because there doesn't seem to be a requirement to address illegal content at all.

It seems to just be demanding you carry out a "risk assessment", then keep the results on hand. Their four-step process isn't even binding, they're using it as a suggestion while saying "there is no one-size-fits-all approach".

The clever bureaucrats know someone might submit a 1-sentence assessment that says "no risk at all", so they stretched their IQ to come up with some standards:

Your risk assessment must be suitable and sufficient, which we explain in more detail in the section ‘What is a ‘suitable and sufficient’ risk assessment?’

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"Assess the risk", "take into account", "Consider" x3. This could probably be pawned off by asserting "low" for all 17 categories, then pointing out KF tracks zero user or profile data beyond email address. That's not a suggestion to Null, I'm just remarking how toothless this report is designed.

The gotcha trap seems to be from demanding an ooperator consider all "relevant information and evidence". The guidance here is vague enough that a hostile bureaucrat could accuse anyone they hate of failing to meet evidentiary standards, somehow.

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And if you just can't figure out enough reported risk to keep the harpies happy, have some consultants manufacture it for you.

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TED now stands for Total Expert Death. May it come swiftly.

The other trap is in requiring you to re-do the assessment any time you make "a significant change".

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It is not coincidental that this part is called out as a specific legal duty. It's vague enough to let a bureaucrat designate any change as needing a requirement, and penalizing anyone they can accuse of having insufficient paperwork records.

I suspect this is designed to be the continuing stick held over the head of sites that previously complied, but fall out of favor with the regulators. Even good-faith compliance won't be enough, as the regulators demand a new report after every feature is added, and spend months arguing and accusing of it being insufficient each time. The process is the punishment.

There's likely other dumb laws hanging around to address the actual illegal stuff, but this particular act seems entirely pointless against illegal content itself. It doesn't require sites to remove or block content, just to think about it and keep tons of paperwork. The biggest trap seems to be letting regulators bury sites in reporting demands, with no recourse for site owners to fight their declarations that the reports are "insufficient".

Their enforcement site says "We have strong enforcement powers at our disposal, including being able to issue fines of up to 10% of turnover or £18m – whichever is greater – or to apply to a court to block a site in the UK in the most serious cases." They are threatening this "if any platform does not provide us with a satisfactory response by the deadline". So they aren't planning to fight the naughty sites over the content--but over bureaucratic compliance with glorified TPS reports. It's the gayest way possible to do censorship.

Fuck these castrated faggots.
 
They can't lock us all up, the prisons are already full after the Southport riots. If I get sent down for saying bad words and "being untoward about paedophiles" like the polis who hassled Posie Parker said, I'll do my time. There'll be a whole wing of us TERF bongs. It'll be like Orange Is The New Black except nobody will side with the troons. I already eat porridge and stay indoors all the time so it's not as if my life will change much.
 
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