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> This free-thinking university student's entire online life seems to have been criminalised in mere discussion by the OSA There's nothing illegal about hostin
by josephg 2y ago
> This free-thinking university student's entire online life seems to have been criminalised in mere discussion by the OSA
There's nothing illegal about hosting a forum. The problem is that you as the site operator are legally required to take down certain kinds of content if and when it appears. Small sites with no money or staff don't have the resources to pay for a full time moderator. That cost scales with the number of users. And who knows whats in those 2.6M historical posts.
From TFA:
> The act will require a vast amount of work to be done on behalf of the Forums and there is no-one left with the availability to do it
Maybe an LLM can carry some of the load here for free forums like this to keep operating?
- sva_ 2y ago> Maybe an LLM can carry some of the load here for free forums like this to keep operating? It can't give you any guarantees, and it can't be held liable for those mistakes.
- edoceo 2y agoAnd it misses the point that the law seems to, or could be used to, criminalise the simple discussion of unpleasant (to some) topics. Without free discourse...well, I think it'd be real bad
- threeseed 2y ago> Without free discourse...well, I think it'd be real bad And yet there are restrictions on speech everywhere in the world. So not sure we need to clutch the pearls too tightly.
- mullingitover 2y agoThis seems to be what the anti-Section 230 folks are going for. The UK just...went ahead and did it?