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Re: Online Safety Act (UK)


 

On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 09:28 AM, John Russell wrote:
there is a material risk of significant harm to such users.
and this is what would need to be proved and what is classed as a 'material risk'. This kind of statement is always open to interpretation and debate and usually, the only winners are the lawyers.
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If you read the Conditions of Use on the Groups.io Terms of Service you'll see that the type of material/activities this Act is supposed to be protecting people from is what Groups.io does not allow. In cases where people/groups have been reported for breaking these terms, then Mark has taken steps to ban them from the site.?
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So it's clear my group comes under the Act
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The Act isn't aimed at individual groups, it's aimed at social media companies and search services (and the major ones at that). I doubt Groups.io could be classed as a major service and while it does have a search facility, it's only for content that's on the Groups.io site.
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The exemption for email/sms/mms services and content mentioned by Dave in #48618 also jumped out at me.? Groups.io is marketed as an email based service so whether you share night sky pictures or other content, you probably send and receive that by email.
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I think a whole bunch of people are getting worked up over nothing with this and I for one, would like to get back to discussing the features of Groups.io.
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Regards
Andy

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