Social media platforms face huge fines under UK’s new digital safety laws.

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Tea@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/enforcing-the-online-safety-act-platforms-must-start-tackling-illegal-material-from-today/

As deadline passes to carry out illegal harms risk assessments, sites and apps must now start tackling criminal content

Ofcom launches enforcement programme into child sexual abuse imagery on file-sharing services

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dan@upvote.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
What does this mean for Lemmy servers based in the UK, and for Lemmy instances that have users from the UK?

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- fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Nothing if the legislation was written properly.
  
  Not good if the legislation was written badly.
  
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