Comment by aimazon

7 months ago

Any competent forum operator is already doing all of this (and more) just without the government-imposed framework. Would the OP allow CSAM to be posted on their website? No. Would the OP contact the authorities if they caught someone distributing CSAM on their website? Yes. Forum administrators are famous (to the point of being a meme) for their love of rules and policies and procedures.

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WarOnPrivacy  7 months ago 

    You just have to make individual value judgements every day on thousands of pieces of content for SEVENTEEN highly specific priority areas.

     Then keep detailed records on each value judgement such that it can hold up to legal scrutiny from an activist court official.

> Any competent forum operator is already doing all of this

What is your evidence that the record keeping described by the parent is routine among competent forum operators?

  • jodrellblank  7 months ago

    The record keeping requirements described by the parent are completely wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42436626

    • KaiserPro  7 months ago

      A risk assessment is not the same as a record of each decision.

      https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guid... has a more comprehensive translation into more normal English.

      You will need to assess the risk of people seeing something from one of those categories (for speciality forms, mostly low), think about algorithms showing it to users (again for forums thats pretty simple) Then have a mechanism to allow people to report offending content.

      Taking proportionate steps to stop people posting stuff in the first place (pretty much the same as spam controls, and then banning offenders)

      The perhaps harder part is allowing people to complain about take downs, but then adding a subforum for that is almost certainly proportionate[1].

      [1] untested law, so not a guarantee

    • WarOnPrivacy  7 months ago

      1) "record keeping requirements described by the parent are completely wrong:"

      2) "Any competent forum operator is already doing all of this [this = record keeping requirements described by the parent]".

      These two assertions seem to conflict (unless good forum OPs are doing wrong record keeping). Are you willing to take another stab at it? What does good forum op record keeping look like?

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