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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"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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Nope. Skipped over that.
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An excellent question from @cyberleagle, which Ofcom's webinar system has mangled badly:
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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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Even if low risk, you must have:
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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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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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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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@neil If you never manage to get a copy of the recording, I also witnessed them say that on the live stream, having read out your question. And would be happy to provide a witness statement.
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@bloor Thank you!
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@neil Did you… did you just engineer a waiver of the OSA specifically for your single-user Fedi instance??!
I’m in awe.
@bloor
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