As I understand it, and would be pleased to be wrong, as of next year little hobby forums like this will have to use an ID system to authenticate users.
The new systems that have popped up so far since the Act came into being a few weeks ago seem to consist of uploading your driving licence/passport/face id or whatever (to some unknown probably in the States who promise not to do anything bad with it, honest guv).
Faced with this, some websites have already either put in these controls (such as Reddit) or have now abandoned the UK altogether (such as Civitai).
I can't imagine our lovely little website at car4play is going to have the resources to put in such a system, and it will have to shut down?
If so, I guess our days are numbered, after all these years. Sigh. At least the children won't be able to see posts like this, so that's good.
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Isn't that only for restricting access to 'primary priority content' e.g. pornography?
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I think that's not the case, no, I think it's anywhere that users can say things of any sort. I hope I'm wrong.
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I didn't know this but just did a bit of reading and CC is right. However AI says we are likely low risk and could be covered by a regularly visited risk assessment and an online policy document, both of which it drafted for me. Based on that I don't think this site will be closed down (hopefully!)
(I just did a long post with cut 'n' paste of much of the detail but it got lost in the ether)
I will flag it up to Stephen but I'd be amazed if he's not already aware. Thanks
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>> If so, I guess our days are numbered, after all these years. Sigh. At least
>> the children won't be able to see posts like this, so that's good.
They all have VPN's now, so they can all see it. Me? I am typing from Baghdad*
* Even that is a lie, its a virtual server that claims to be in Iraq
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Online Safety Act - Biggles aka B_i_G
