I'm sure they can find a community elsewhere. Discord comes to mind... "Oh but it's illegal", trust me on this: Discord only cares if somebody actually reports the server and the violations are severe enough.
But why should they _have_ to find a community elsewhere?
It is right that a country should snuff out all communities, large and small, and drive them to hosting in another country, or "under the wing" of a behemoth with a fully-funded legal department?
It's never the stated purpose of the law, but we might do well to be concerned with what it actually does rather than what the proponents claim it would do.
Recourse doesn't matter for a sole proprietorship. If they have to engage with a lawyer whatsoever, the site is dead or blocked because they don't have the resources for that.
What recourse? A small, 5o-member community doesn't have the resources to ensure they're in compliance, and Ofcom's statement about how smaller players are "unlikely" to be affected is not particularly reassuring.
The "stated purpose" is irrelevant. Even if they are being honest about their stated purpose (questionable), the only thing that matters is how it ends up playing out in reality.
This is exactly the point, isn't it? The smallest websites are destroyed, leaving only the megacorps.
I'm sure they can find a community elsewhere. Discord comes to mind... "Oh but it's illegal", trust me on this: Discord only cares if somebody actually reports the server and the violations are severe enough.
But why should they _have_ to find a community elsewhere?
It is right that a country should snuff out all communities, large and small, and drive them to hosting in another country, or "under the wing" of a behemoth with a fully-funded legal department?
It's a blatantly destructive law.
That is not the stated purpose of the law and there is recourse built into it. Too often folks view these laws as binaries where none exists.
It's never the stated purpose of the law, but we might do well to be concerned with what it actually does rather than what the proponents claim it would do.
Recourse doesn't matter for a sole proprietorship. If they have to engage with a lawyer whatsoever, the site is dead or blocked because they don't have the resources for that.
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What recourse? A small, 5o-member community doesn't have the resources to ensure they're in compliance, and Ofcom's statement about how smaller players are "unlikely" to be affected is not particularly reassuring.
The "stated purpose" is irrelevant. Even if they are being honest about their stated purpose (questionable), the only thing that matters is how it ends up playing out in reality.
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