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Comment by josephg

4 months ago

> This free-thinking university student's entire online life seems to have been criminalised in mere discussion by the OSA

There's nothing illegal about hosting a forum. The problem is that you as the site operator are legally required to take down certain kinds of content if and when it appears. Small sites with no money or staff don't have the resources to pay for a full time moderator. That cost scales with the number of users. And who knows whats in those 2.6M historical posts.

From TFA:

> The act will require a vast amount of work to be done on behalf of the Forums and there is no-one left with the availability to do it

Maybe an LLM can carry some of the load here for free forums like this to keep operating?

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sva_  4 months ago

> Maybe an LLM can carry some of the load here for free forums like this to keep operating?

It can't give you any guarantees, and it can't be held liable for those mistakes.

  • edoceo  4 months ago

    And it misses the point that the law seems to, or could be used to, criminalise the simple discussion of unpleasant (to some) topics.

    Without free discourse...well, I think it'd be real bad

    • threeseed  4 months ago

      > Without free discourse...well, I think it'd be real bad

      And yet there are restrictions on speech everywhere in the world.

      So not sure we need to clutch the pearls too tightly.