"Companies will have three months from when the guidance is finalised to carry out risk assessments and make relevant changes to safeguard users…“Platforms are supposed to remove illegal content like promoting or facilitating suicide, self-harm, and child sexual abuse.”

This is already impacting futurology.today - one of the Mods is British, and because of this law doesn’t feel comfortable continuing. As they have back-end expertise with hosting, if they go, we may have to shut down the whole site.

How easy is it to block British IP addresses? Would that be enough to circumvent any legal issues, if no one else involved in running the site is British and it is hosted somewhere else in the world?

  • LughOP
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    25 days ago

    I misphrased, they are an Admin/Op, and essential.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 days ago

      Even more important then to get them deessentialized if they’re already feeling like leaving.