Comment by jlaporte

4 months ago

I sympathize with the operators of these forums of course -- the UK Online Safety Act is poorly conceived.

HOWEVER.

Deleting their forums? "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." [1]

This is a false dichotomy. Put Cloudflare in front of the site, block UK traffic [2], and you're done. 5 minute job.

[1] https://forums.hexus.net/hexus-news/426608-looks-like-end-he...

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/custom-rules/use-cases...

I don't know the detail here, but in many of the discussions I've seen the operators themselves are based in the UK, and that changes the calculus.

  • Yeah, GP is, to put it charitably, not understanding the situation.

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