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Matthew Brown replied to the topic
Front page is broken again in the forum Help and Support 1 year 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Front page is broken again in the forum Help and Support 1 year agoHey Matt, the front page is three years out of date again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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Does this apply to author blogs?
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The Online Safety Act 2023 in the group Help and Support: 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 […]
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic
New STP book in the forum Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett 1 year agoI’m rather excited about this, too.
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Jason Latnar started the topic
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What’s your favourate STP fact? in the forum Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett 1 year agoWhat’s your favourate STP fact, book, character, whatev’?
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Definitive annotated edition of Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch