Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.

We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.

URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.

Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites 🌐

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp

#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #fediverse #ukpolitics #ukpol #activitypub #mastodon #netplurality

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Blogs, forums and fedi instances are facing burdensome duties and penalties imposed by the UK #OnlineSafetyAct.

Despite being small and safely moderated, the Act sweeps them up into the same regime as platforms like Facebook and X. This is overkill, resulting in many shutting down or blocking UK users.

With the duties going live on 17 March, urgent action is required to exempt small sites.

Act NOW to #SaveOurSites🌐 ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp

#fediverse #mastodon #ukpolitics #tech

Are there any first reactions regarding the Online Safety Act in the UK and the Fediverse? I can imagine that this will have an enormous impact with shut downs or unreachable server in the UK.

#OnlineSafetyAct #uk #fediverse

Here we go again: Online Safety Act and porn

#OnlineSafetyAct