Online Safety Act

[Rhossydd]

However, the blanket control of everything "online" is probably not going to be super helpful as people up to no good don`t care about rules and regulations anyway.

No one's 'taking control'. It's really just a poke for organisations to run online services safely and diligently.
Most of the tricky aspects that will need serious intervention are for sites with over 7 million users. With fines at 10% of turnover, very many small hobby sites won't have much, if any, exposure to financial risk.
Making sites operate responsibly can only be a good thing.

 

[Lons]

The most challenging bit might be age verification, but arguably if there is no dodgy content then that might not be needed - and the solution might simply be to ask for a 4,000 word essay on the benefits and alternatives in sharpening

There is a member who could do that in his sleep.

OOPs have I just offended under the section "Offences relating to abuse and insults" if my comment has been taken as such.

 

[Ollie78]

No one's 'taking control'. It's really just a poke for organisations to run online services safely and diligently.
Most of the tricky aspects that will need serious intervention are for sites with over 7 million users. With fines at 10% of turnover, very many small hobby sites won't have much, if any, exposure to financial risk.
Making sites operate responsibly can only be a good thing.

There is a measure of control here, currently it`s not super invasive but there could certainly be gradual and small increases to the control that may not be desirable and will be harder to spot.
Sites should ideally act responsibly, and most want to anyway.
I saw something the other day that was saying currently youtube could not possibly check even a small number of the 5 billion hours of uploaded video per day, that is 1000 hours per minute. This must be similar for instagram and others. Given this information the task is basically impossible no matter what the regulations say.
Who is responsible for any given bit of content ? Is instagram or twitter responsible for videos or comments uploaded or the person who made and or uploaded it? I tend to think the latter. The "platforms" are just the blank page or canvas.