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These are the "duties" Ofcom is demanding of site owners and operators: - to conduct a suitable and sufficient illegal content risk assessment; - to use pr
by heavyset_go 7mo ago
These are the "duties" Ofcom is demanding of site owners and operators:
- to conduct a suitable and sufficient illegal content risk assessment;
- to use proportionate measures to prevent individuals encountering priority illegal content;
- to use proportionate systems and processes to minimise the length of time priority illegal content is present;
- to swiftly take down illegal content when it becomes aware of it;
- to specify in its terms of service how individuals are to be protected from illegal content; and relating to content reporting and complaints procedures in relation to illegal content.
Reads to me like they're legally prescribing that all web content is to be automatically fed into AI models in order to assess the content's appropriateness and "risk", and then "swiftly" censor the content if it's deemed too risky or illegal.
That's the only method that will scale, can be done "swiftly" and won't have the government kicking down your door if someone posts something illegal on your platform while you're sleeping or on vacation.
- miohtama 7mo agoGuess how one gets "a suitable and sufficient illegal content risk assessment"? You need to buy it from compliance companies which lobbied for the law in the UK, run by ex regulators. https://x.com/moo9000/status/1950866445186818209?s=20 https://x.com/moo9000/status/1950866445186818209?s=20
- Muromec 7mo agoIt means you have to do your paperwork so you can’t then pretend you “didn’t know” csam can exist on your website when repeatedly pointed out. As far as regulation goes this is pretty light and allowing. It’s more annoying than not having any laws at all sure, but zero regulation regime failed (from the point of view of powers that be). Next on the escalation ladder is govt writing the rules for you that you either take or leave
- raxxorraxor 7mo agoThis won't solve anything and "being annoying" to everyone on the planet isn't a trivial overstep. I don't see any sense in your statement that "no regulation" failed.
- Levitz 7mo ago4chan is and has for a long time been in cooperation with US law enforcement. You can literally, right now, enter the site and when reporting a post there's an option to report a post as breaking US law. If the UK is not happy about how the site deals with such matters, the UK can block the site. >Next on the escalation ladder is govt writing the rules for you that you either take or leave No. This is not "next". This is "now" but the UK doesn't want to actually look to be doing what they are actively doing, and now we've got this mess.
- miohtama 7mo agoCSAM is illegal in the US. This is not about it.
- verisimi 7mo agoIt's all just a money making scheme
- remus 7mo ago> Guess how one gets "a suitable and sufficient illegal content risk assessment"? This stuff is not magic, you can just do it yourself.
- speefers 7mo ago[dead]