I think I figured out what is so annoying about #onlineSafetyAct - #ofcom has written all its' docs assuming you are complicated bespoke service with dedicated staff to do "legal stuff". There's no pre-done, "just you use this" for perfectly standard, ordinary, foreseeable cases.
We shouldn't be arguing about "is every spammer who emails me porn a 'user' of my email service".
@falken fwiw and on your last point: there’s an exemption in the act for email services.
But I wholly agree with your point. It’s ridiculous that you need a lawyer to comply with this!
@falken 100%! I fully agree with you.
I just thought I’d highlight this is in case you were not aware
@derickr @michael or not. Just say you don't have "significant" number of UK users so out of scope.
#OFCOM point blank refused on call today to give a number/percentage/way to calculate so just decide if you are smaller than a tenth of a tenth of a tenth Facebook, it's fine.
My maths says less than 3 million isn't therefore "significant" by any global standard, or less than 60k by UK standards.
@falken
It's going to end up with some poor sod who runs a low impact nitche service such as forum or Mastodon being dragged through the courts.
All to work out if OFCOM are publishing total nonsense or what Parliament actually intended or wants with the OSA 🫤