Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety Bill

Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by darkhorse222 on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:17PM (#32059694)

You're talking like someone who doesn't live in a hyper-connected, hyper-online society. The same poor argument could made to verbal harassment. "Put in some headphones!"

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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by vorpalhex on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:05PM (#32060329)

You don't have to be hyper-online or hyper-connected.

I spend time with people in person or on the phone usually. We, gasp, _do things_ like go to restaurants or go camping. Sometimes we all sit on the sofa in a big pile and share snacks and watch movies or talk about life.

It's nice. Sometimes I'm even alone and get to read a dead tree book or just enjoy nature.

What happens "on the internet" is of very low importance, slightly below my choice of socks or what brand of snack to get.

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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by pie_flavor on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:54AM (#32066507)

If you don't engage with the system whose regulation is being discussed at all, and don't care one way or the other, then volunteering this information in a discussion of the regulation and how it relates to the problems you don't have is the lowest effort form of decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio of the conversation.

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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by causi on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @07:36AM (#32068387)

and don't care one way or the other

Obviously we do care, otherwise we wouldn't comment. You don't have to be terminally-online to have an opinion about what we should be allowed to do online.

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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by causi on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:24PM (#32059776)

I would make that argument if I could push a button and make that person disappear from my sight and hearing. Ironically verbal harassment is much more protected. I'm free to get a group of people together and go chant "You're a cunt!" outside the Palace of Westminster.

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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by concordDance on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @04:38AM (#32067076)

Unfortunately headphones don't work that well. If it were possible to have whitelists and blacklists of people you could see and hear in real life then yes, headphones would be a solution.

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