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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