"Companies will have three months from when the guidance is finalised to carry out risk assessments and make relevant changes to safeguard users…“Platforms are supposed to remove illegal content like promoting or facilitating suicide, self-harm, and child sexual abuse.”

This is already impacting futurology.today - one of the Mods is British, and because of this law doesn’t feel comfortable continuing. As they have back-end expertise with hosting, if they go, we may have to shut down the whole site.

How easy is it to block British IP addresses? Would that be enough to circumvent any legal issues, if no one else involved in running the site is British and it is hosted somewhere else in the world?

  • Lugh@futurology.todayOPEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

    would it be enough to have those rules in place, and when reported actively remove the content as a mod?

    We’re pretty good with daily moderating of content on futurology.today, so I’d be confident we could cover that aspect.

    However I’m wondering about federation issues. Are we liable for UK users who use their futurology.today account to access other instances we don’t mod?

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      That’s a good point, and I don’t know. My gut says no, it would be on the other instance owner, but obviously I’m not a lawyer or anything