Forums closing ???

[mellors]

Hi all.

Anyone know if our forums are under threat with the new internet protection stuff coming in march. 

 

[TIGHTCHOKE]

 

"The Act places new safety duties on social media firms, search engines, messaging, gaming and dating apps, and pornography and file-sharing sites.

Before we can enforce these duties, we are required to produce codes of practice and industry guidance to help firms to comply, following a period of public consultation."

[Newbie to this]

1 hour ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

 

"The Act places new safety duties on social media firms, search engines, messaging, gaming and dating apps, and pornography and file-sharing sites.

Before we can enforce these duties, we are required to produce codes of practice and industry guidance to help firms to comply, following a period of ignoring the public"

That's more accurate.

[matone]

Been a lot of discussion on a non shooting forum that I frequent in last few days ! General consensus is that most small fora run by individuals/small teams will have to close come March `25 ,as Admins/Mods of same will be liable to huge fines/costs for non compliance with Ofcom rules !!!!

Get searching folks we`re about to lose the Internet we know.

[mmamonster]

Does that mean all gun forums will be shutting down or is there away round it.?

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, Would a change of name help ??

[matone]

1 hour ago, mmamonster said:

Does that mean all gun forums will be shutting down or is there away round it.?

It will affect ALL forums,only those that can afford to comply and subsequently monitor posts AND PM`s full time will be able to continue apparently.....

[mmamonster]

1 minute ago, matone said:

It will affect ALL forums,only those that can afford to comply and subsequently monitor posts AND PM`s full time will be able to continue apparently.....

Thank you for the info

Atb

Mart

[armsid]

Freedom of speech gone

[welsh1]

Looking at this bag of spanners legislation we seem to be in a good place, we as a site over the years with the help of past admin have a good set of rules in place and the site on a whole is well moderated,i believe as the act comes into place it will be changed as they are made aware of the one size fits all policy doesn't work, let's not all panic just yet and see how things unfold.

[matone]

1 minute ago, welsh1 said:

Looking at this bag of spanners legislation we seem to be in a good place, we as a site over the years with the help of past admin have a good set of rules in place and the site on a whole is well moderated,i believe as the act comes into place it will be changed as they are made aware of the one size fits all policy doesn't work, let's not all panic just yet and see how things unfold.

You would hope so but the present Party in power wanted to make it even more draconian when it was being drawn up !!!!

[welsh1]

2 minutes ago, matone said:

You would hope so but the present Party in power wanted to make it even more draconian when it was being drawn up !!!!

When all the little community groups who are usually run by karens and generally labour leaning all the sport groups, hobby groups start to complain then i think things will change, the legislation was supposed to go for the corporates fb, x, tictok etc, but people with no real knowledge of online forums seem to have drawn this up.

[ditchman]

if Ofcom/Labour try to close down mums net...............all the mp's will need to be issued with 24/7 police protection and body armour

[matone]

...have heard that observation elsewhere !!!lol .Apparently that organisation has a couple of million ££££s spare and will be able to comply .......