It’s also several hundred pages long. Fair few web forums are closing because of it if they are UK hosted too.
It would be interesting to get a legal opinion on what about it actually impacts lemmy instances tbh. Obviously one option is to go “lol fuck off” if the UK complain and you are not in the UK.
Jerry@feddit.online 4 days ago
They can notify the hosting company that the server is violating UK law, the registrars, and payment services. This is the fear for sites not hosted in the UK. There are inter-country agreements to support civil actions.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Doesn’t that sort of thing take quite a bit of time though? And they need to find out about it too.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 days ago
If the regular internet gets bad enough, there is still the dark web.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Maybe it’s too tinfoil hat but I worry they will push for a whitelisted internet at some point.
Skavau@piefed.social 4 days ago
I highly doubt the US government would look likely on a US-based service taking down a US-based social media site because Ofcom complained to them about them not adhering to local laws. And for that reason, I very much doubt Ofcom would ever do that. They'd just block the site violating OSA.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Quite a few have suggested the OSA is intended to further centralise the internet. Looking at the impact so far and they are not wrong…