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Thanks so much to everyone who has already shared this. Nearly 80 people signed up already and some great questions for Ofcom. I think it is very important to show the scale and size of the issue here as it seems not to have been picked up in Ofcom's horizon scanning - and also good to show that people are responsible and engaged/concerned about the duties https://lu.ma/qijpvfnl
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If you run a low-risk community site in the UK and have questions about your duties under the Online Safety Act, lunchtime Q&A session with Ofcom on 12 Feb - sign up here https://lu.ma/qijpvfnl
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Update sent out by me just now via the Indie Compliance Newsletter - which you can also sign up to in case of interest https://buttondown.com/indie-and-community-web-compliance-/archive/3-lunchtime-qa-with-ofcom-12-feb-2025/
please share with anyone who might find this useful!
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oh, PS, lots of people asking if this applies to single user Fediverse instances. I strongly suspect this is a use case that no one at Ofcom has thought of, and I am very unclear how they would keep track of that anyway... (this is not legal advice!)
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Lots of links in the newsletter to explain various risk levels and duties, but something in particular I raise in there is that it would be really useful for someone to do a boilerplate Fediverse risk assessment that could be re-used by others, as I suspect risks will largely be the same.
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Hello hello. Update wending its way to the Indie Compliance mailing list now, with the world's least snappily titled listicle: Five things you need if you run a small, low-risk user-to-user service
This contains an update from Ofcom, and the shortest possible summary of the new legal duties
https://buttondown.com/indie-and-community-web-compliance-/archive/2-five-things-you-need-if-you-run-a-small-low/
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@mistertim meant to tag you here!
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If you run a UK-based fediverse instance, worth noting you now have 11 weeks to do a risk assessment and become compliant. If you're interested in a compliance training session with ofcom, doing some collective bargaining on compliance terms, or just finding out more about what's going on, this newsletter may be of interest https://buttondown.com/indie-and-community-web-compliance-/archive/1-quick-update-and-request-for-info/
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And the form to gather details about which sites are affected and whether they are likely to close: https://forms.gle/FEDTAKvZEkfZtKJ27 this is particularly important - if we can convey the scale and impact of the changes I think we're in with a better chance of seeking eg a discretionary waiver or extended onboarding period
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Very hastily written newsletter just went out to the Indie and Community Web Compliance list, with a request for information about sites likely to be affected and a quick update on initial emails with Ofcom https://buttondown.com/indie-and-community-web-compliance-/archive/1-quick-update-and-request-for-info/
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If you run a UK-based indie or community web service of some kind and are worried about the incoming Online Safety compliance duties, the Promising Trouble team have put together a mailing list and been in touch with Ofcom to see if they’ll do some engagement. No promises on getting anything resolved, but better together than alone etc https://buttondown.com/indie-and-community-web-compliance-
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New paper from me, for the British Academy, on why the UK needs a Digital Civil Society Observatory to more effectively understand the social impacts of technologies and put more effective anticipatory governance measures in place. This would:
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/people-not-code-the-case-for-a-digital-civil-society-observatory/
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The counterintuitive thing about 2FA is that it's such a PITA it encourages insecure and unsustainable behaviours. Just back to work after a week away and it has taken me 25 mins to log in to everything after a rare machine closedown/restart.
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I have to buy a very boring item of furniture to fit in a very restricted space and am bored of searching so have decided to let the Instagram algo find it for me by engaging with every single advert I am now served for said item.
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