Hi everyone, I’m aware the Online Safety Act became law in the UK in November 2023. I’m wondering if Discourse are launching any new features to support with this new law and helping making online communities safer for people under the age of 18 to use? Thank you!

:wave: A new ‘It’s illegal’ flag option has been added. [画像] New "It's illegal" reason when flagging posts megaphoneAnnouncements We have added a new “It’s illegal” reason to the flagging system. When selected by a site member in the post flagging popup, a s…

May I have a link to review? Curious to see what the UK changes entail

There’s an explainer here [画像] Online Safety Act: explainer

I just came across an upcoming discussion session that may be of interest to Discourse folks: “Promising Trouble is hosting a lunchtime session with Ali Hall and Andrew Park from Ofcom to discuss the new Online Safety responsibilities for small, low-risk community sites.” Wednesday, February 12, 2…

There are interesting posts about this topic here: [画像] New OfCom Rules Support 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 w…

I am working through the compliance for the OSA at the moment While the majority of the work seems to be in documenting that the organisation has considered and attempted to mitigate the risk of Illegal Harms, I wondered if anyone out there has developed any shareable documentation or automated too…

Watched words sounds like it might be a good idea, although of course it’s a blunt instrument. I may choose to document a process of periodic checking of the use of user-to-user messages. But that works for me because my users barely use the facility. /admin/reports/user_to_user_private_messages I…

I’ve just started setting up a self hosted discourse for our community and this is a concern raised my end too, a lot of sites are implementing ID verification to get around any legalities. Our community will be starting with a minimum age of 16 years old and be hosted in the UK. Whilst that’s the r…

Has anyone got any integrations working with age verification services?

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