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The unclear UK Online Safety Act cannot possibly hope to process all the bloggers in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 4 months, 1 week agoThe unclear UK Online Safety Act cannot possibly hope to process all the bloggers
The UK Online Safety Act 2023 makes it the responsibility of site owners to carry out a laundry list of protection behaviours. The UK Government has failed […] -
Matthew Brown commented on the post,
The Online Safety Act 2023, on the groupblog Author Buzz Developer Blog 4 months, 1 week agoThere are over 450 million WordPress blogs alone. They want it to apply world-wide and that’s just too many to deal with.
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Danny H commented on the post,
The Online Safety Act 2023, on the groupblog Author Buzz Developer Blog 4 months, 1 week agoIn all honesty, there must be thousands of UK based / managed blogs. I don’t see how Ofcom would be able to police all of them
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Jason Latnar replied to the topic
Front page is broken again in the forum Help and Support 4 months, 1 week agoWorking again!!!
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Matthew Brown commented on the post,
The Online Safety Act 2023, on the groupblog Author Buzz Developer Blog 4 months, 1 week agoOn reflection, I think I may have over-worried. Risk assmements are boring but doable. I’ll see if someone publishes a template.
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Arves Corral replied to the topic UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers? in the forum General Chat 4 months, 1 week ago
How do we fight this?
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic
Front page is broken again in the forum Help and Support 4 months, 1 week agoThat is very much appreciated, Danny. I may take you up on that if my latest hotfix fails.
I’ve removed the transient caching. Page might be slightly slower but should always be fresh.
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Danny H replied to the topic
Front page is broken again in the forum Help and Support 4 months, 1 week agoI think this is a long-term problem which will take time to resolve (Matt, if I can help in any way just shout
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic
Front page is broken again in the forum Help and Support 4 months, 1 week agoI know. I’m baffled but trying to fix it.
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Jason Latnar started the topic
Front page is broken again in the forum Help and Support 4 months, 1 week agoHey Matt, the front page is three years out of date again
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Burty Burtman replied to the topic UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers? in the forum General Chat 4 months, 1 week ago
You can’t catch ’em all
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Matthew Brown commented on the post,
The Online Safety Act 2023, on the groupblog Author Buzz Developer Blog 4 months, 1 week agoOfcom has offered some guiendence: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/Online-Safety/check-how-to-comply/
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Danny H commented on the post,
The Online Safety Act 2023, on the groupblog Author Buzz Developer Blog 4 months, 1 week agoFound a summary of the act (on the gov.uk website), but I haven’t found anything about what we’re supposed to do (registration wise) Do you have any links?
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers? in the forum General Chat 4 months, 1 week ago
It blind sided me, too. I’m usually much more aware of daft tech laws that don’t understand the problem.
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Burty Burtman replied to the topic UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers? in the forum General Chat 4 months, 1 week ago
What? We’re only hearing this now?
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Matthew Brown commented on the post,
The Online Safety Act 2023, on the groupblog Author Buzz Developer Blog 4 months, 1 week agoIn the short term 0%. In the long term… I have no idea. I hope that going after indie blog sites will be like trying to empty the ocean with a spoon.
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Adam Bassman commented on the post,
The Online Safety Act 2023, on the groupblog Author Buzz Developer Blog 4 months, 1 week agoWhat are the odds the site will close?
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Adam Bassman replied to the topic UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers? in the forum General Chat 4 months, 1 week ago
oh, ****!
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers? in the forum General Chat 4 months, 1 week ago
The current answer is that nobody knows.
The Register article you linked is making the point that the law is unclear and that the definitions are wholly and not well defined.
IANAL but I think we shall be fine in the short term and will have to wait for clarification.
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Adam Bassman started the topic UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers? in the forum General Chat 4 months, 1 week ago
Does this apply to author blogs?
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
The Online Safety Act 2023 in the group Help and Support: 4 months, 1 week agoThe Online Safety Act 2023
The Online Safety Act 2023 comes into force Monday. This should be a good thing except that I now have to do a mountain of paperwork (correctly on the […] -
Blog: We have won Small Press of the Year Wales from
Seren in the group Seren Books 4 months, 1 week agoWe are delighted to be named Small Press of the Year Wales in the British Book Awards 2025.
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Blog: Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted by Ben Okri review – a slender fable from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 months, 1 week agoThe magical healing power of a masked costume ball hangs in the balance in this whimsical tale of transformationDespite the many and various festivals on offer […]
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Blog: The Bangles: ‘If we were a boyband, we’d have just punched each other out’ from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 4 months, 1 week agoThe women behind ‘Eternal Flame’ and ‘Manic Monday’ were among the most successful – and history-making – pop groups of the Eighties… until they were torn apart. A […]
