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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 15:51

Right. Ofcom's next online session is about "low risk" services.

I'll be tooting my thoughts in this thread.

Feel free to mute if you wish :)

[#]OnlineSafetyAct

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 15:54

"We haven't done a great deal of work about decentralised services in detail".

We can't give you a specific answer to who the provider might be.

(I fear "we can't help with that" will be a common theme.)

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 15:56

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 15:57

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 15:58

Nope. Skipped over that.

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 15:59

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:02

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:03

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:04

An excellent question from @cyberleagle, which Ofcom's webinar system has mangled badly:

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:06

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:08

Ofcom is using an example of a "small gaming service" with "around 15,000 monthly UK users".

I wonder if Ofcom recognises that many of the people worrying about the OSA are talking about services with 0.1% of that userbase?!

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:12

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:13

Even if low risk, you must have:

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:17

I'll try to find some spare time to write some template "not legal advice" terms and conditions, and complaints-related information.

Although, honestly, goodness knows how that applies in the context of, say,

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:19

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:22

Questions!

"We probably can't give a definitive answer..."

What about services which are new, so have no evidence base?

Answer: you're right, we can't give a definitive answer...

sigh

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:24

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:25

Oooh!

I think Ofcom has just said that single-user Mastodon instances are out of scope.

They read out my question, and said that.

But I fear that they have said that without knowing what the service is...

Even so, I'll be looking for that part of the recording :)

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:26

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Written by The Penguin of Evil on 2025-02-05 at 16:42

@neil Does that paperwork have to be in English. It looks like having a set of policies in Welsh ought to be just fine and ensure they get tied in knots if they try to be silly, just like with tax inspections.

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Written by ahnlak on 2025-02-05 at 16:43

@etchedpixels @neil presumably providing such policies exclusively in Welsh would be a strong indicator that the "target market" wasn't the whole of the UK, and therefore take yourself out of scope? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Written by The Penguin of Evil on 2025-02-05 at 16:48

@ahnlak @neil Now that's a thought. I wonder what services you could include that would mean your website wasn't suitable for the EU market and therefore Northern Ireland 8)

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