Sorry if this is in the wrong place.
Football forums, Guitar forums etc (some 20 years old) are discussing pulling the plug out in March because of fear of Ofcom fines for non-compliance.
Non-compliance can be not submitting risk assessments properly (for example and the threatened fines are huge.
Here is a football site owner post from last night:
"Unless something changes in the Online Safety Act that is, as it is due to take full effect in March 2025.
RTG despite being relatively small falls foul of the majority of the conditions and continuing to provide the service will simply not be practical with the resources we have (both people and monetary wise).
In a nutshell, we have to do lots of risk assessments before that date, have lots of written procedures in place to deal with them, delete any content which is illegal, but also have a complaints process in place so that anyone who complains about their content being removed has that addressed promptly. We will also have to prevent children accessing the platform and put age verification measures in place and will have to scan uploaded content to check it isn't harmful. There is a whole lot more to it than that but hopefully you get the idea - it will all just be too onerous. The potential fine for not complying is £18 million or 10% of company turnover whichever is greater.
Have a read of
this post 
on another forum as that admin puts it all more eloquently than I ever could, but broadly the same applies here"
I can direct you to another discussion on a Guitar Forum where the owner discusses at length the impossibility of him being able to meet the fantastical demands of Ofcom to comply with the Act.
Thanks for reading and look forward to any comments. Everyone is looking for an answer.
Football forums, Guitar forums etc (some 20 years old) are discussing pulling the plug out in March because of fear of Ofcom fines for non-compliance.
Non-compliance can be not submitting risk assessments properly (for example and the threatened fines are huge.
Here is a football site owner post from last night:
"Unless something changes in the Online Safety Act that is, as it is due to take full effect in March 2025.
RTG despite being relatively small falls foul of the majority of the conditions and continuing to provide the service will simply not be practical with the resources we have (both people and monetary wise).
In a nutshell, we have to do lots of risk assessments before that date, have lots of written procedures in place to deal with them, delete any content which is illegal, but also have a complaints process in place so that anyone who complains about their content being removed has that addressed promptly. We will also have to prevent children accessing the platform and put age verification measures in place and will have to scan uploaded content to check it isn't harmful. There is a whole lot more to it than that but hopefully you get the idea - it will all just be too onerous. The potential fine for not complying is £18 million or 10% of company turnover whichever is greater.
Have a read of
this post on another forum as that admin puts it all more eloquently than I ever could, but broadly the same applies here"I can direct you to another discussion on a Guitar Forum where the owner discusses at length the impossibility of him being able to meet the fantastical demands of Ofcom to comply with the Act.
Thanks for reading and look forward to any comments. Everyone is looking for an answer.
