Hello The UK government are planning to change the laws of online safety and I was curious what measures Discourse are taking to address this or if there is a suggested response for anyone who is hosting in the UK? https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/time-for-tech-fi…

From Ofcom’s website: “firms are now legally required to start taking action to tackle criminal activity on their platforms” I think that Discourse already provides a way to tackle criminal activity by the ‘Its Illegal’ flag to alert staff of illegal activity on the site. Realistically, other than …

Yup we’re on top of it. We have been monitoring it for most of the year and are prepared. [image] Sean: Our community are looking into this but it’s unclear to me if the onus is on us or Discourse It’s on both of us. We provide the tools to comply with the OSA (because we have to comply here…

For all of the things that are on us, do you have suggested processes and copy?

I’m interested too so if anyone can find it out I’d like to know too. Although I can’t find a specific definition it appears that different sized services are treated slightly differently to larger service providers. “we aren’t requiring small services with limited functionality to take the same act…

Can the forum software readily provide a list of mod actions over a year? Or perhaps mod actions filtered by, say, responding to flags? I wouldn’t want to have to keep a separate record. (Sometimes I will delete a user because of a flag - that isn’t an option when responding to a flag.)

[image] Sean: For all of the things that are on us, do you have suggested processes and copy? No and I’m afraid it’s unlikely that we will provide those. As with GDPR we provide the tools to comply but you will need to seek your own legal advice.

[image] Jakke Flemming: how is UK defining small, medium and large service providers? There’s a discussion on HN here (concerning a specific case where a person running 300 forums has decided to close them all) which contains useful information and links to official docs. AFAICT, 700 thousan…

Thanks. So, it apply only to a few, in its full power anyway. One of my friend living in UK is partly reason why I’m curious, because she in panicking quite a lot because of this.

Here are the risk assessment guidelines: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/online-safety/information-for-industry/illegal-harms/risk-assessment-guidance-and-risk-profiles.pdf?v=387549

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Out of curiosity: how is UK defining small, medium and large service providers?

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