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Blog: 25. Daughters of Shadong from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 11 months, 2 weeks ago25. Daughters of Shandong. Eve J. Chung. 2024. 400 pages. [Source: Library] [adult historical fiction, coming of age, refugees, adult fiction] [4 stars]First […]
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Blog: Fostering the Next Generation of Readers with Frank Cottrell-Boyce, William Rayfet Hunter & Taylor-Dior Rumble, and The Reading Agency on Day Three of The London Book Fair 2025 from
The Hub by The London Book Fair | Publishing News in the group The London Bookfair Hub Blog 11 months, 2 weeks agoLONDON, 13 March 2025: On the final day of The London Book Fair, the largest book trade and publishing event of the spring, the Fair reported over 1,000 exhibitors, […]
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Danny H commented on the post,
The unclear UK Online Safety Act cannot possibly hope to process all the bloggers, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt 11 months, 2 weeks agoThe risk assessment isn’t supposed to be sent anywhere, but it is supposed to be available if they ask for it
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
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: 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks agoWorking again!!!
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Matthew Brown commented on the post,
The Online Safety Act 2023, on the groupblog Author Buzz Developer Blog 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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: 11 months, 2 weeks 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 […]
