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Social media platforms face huge fines under UK’s new digital safety laws.
(www.ofcom.org.uk)
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What does this mean for Lemmy servers based in the UK, and for Lemmy instances that have users from the UK?
Nothing if the legislation was written properly.
Not good if the legislation was written badly.
@dan @Tea
Not a lawyer, but I gather that OSA would apply and instance owners would need to comply.
Neil Brown from Decoded.Legal wrote a huge summary of info at https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/ .
IFTAS has another collection of resources https://connect.iftas.org/library/legal-regulatory/online-safety-act/