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Re:UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning by cft on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:35AM (#46599709)
Goodbye all small independent forums with no AI budgets. An attacker posts a nude picture, 18m fine from OfCom ("whichever is larger", not proportional to revenue)
Re:UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning by flumpcakes on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:46AM (#46599795)
I don't think the fine is automatic like that, it's more if you don't have an appropriate mechanism to manage it. In other words you need a content policy that is enforced.

A mod who deletes nude pictures is probably enough to not get fined.

I think the real issue is what I just said... "probably enough"; that's the real problem with the online safety act. People are mostly illiterate on the law, and now asking them to understand a complex law and implement it (even when the actual implementation is not that much effort or any effort at all for well run spaces) is the real issue.

Re:UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning by jaffa2 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @08:09AM (#46600490)
As far as I am aware, 'probably' is about the best you can do, since the OSA is so vaguely defined, it's actually difficult to actually know what is and what isn't valid.