Comment by hatly22

My unpopular opinion is that it is a long time coming. Smaller sites that do not have strong technical knowledge of security or IT maintenance are targets for bot nets and scammers to host on. It's the same as arguing that Health and Safety regulation harms small businesses because they have to ensure the safety of their employees and customers. Or that it's not coducive to small businesses to have employment law. Companies have had decades to switch to safe and secure online businesses, but the self-regulation never materialised. Site owners are not going to be arrested willy nilly. All that is needed is to show that you have the administration in place to deal with complaints from the publis and enquiries from OFCOM. If you host illegal content, you have to have someone around to deal with it. If you host hate speech then you have to deal with the consequences. nobody has been prosecuted for saying the government is rubbish, but they will be for advocating physical harm on people in our society. This will create digital management agencies that act as proxies to OFCOM, it may even create a cottage industry of remote working digital administrators. These changes should be enbraced as opportunity, and fought when needed, but this isn't anything but law enforcement. The conspiracy bunnies are hopping mad, citing some sort of tyrannical destruction of liberty, but it's not.