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It is kind of surprising. Honestly, they could’ve just moved their servers to the US or figured out a workaround instead of throwing in the towel. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen strict laws get introduced, GDPR, COPPA, etc, and plenty of sites adapted just fine.
Feels like some of them were maybe already halfway out the door and just used this as a convenient excuse to wrap things up.
But hey, as the saying goes: a soft head makes a soft ass
I think the way the law was written kind of eliminated that "out" that was there. It did not matter where the server was based, but more the owner of it. For someone like me in the US, I don't have to worry about it.
And no, there were some pretty popular sites shutting down.
Incredible as it may seem, thanks to the Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites are closing down by 17 March, rather than face threats of fines that could lose their operators their homes.
There's been a lot of discussion on it. A few folks that I know that live in the UK are still debating on whether they even want to keep running a site due to the requirements and the possibility of punishment if they don't do perfect. And no, none of them run big sites, but should it matter whether the site is large or small?
I think the way the law was written kind of eliminated that "out" that was there. It did not matter where the server was based, but more the owner of it. For someone like me in the US, I don't have to worry about it.
And no, there were some pretty popular sites shutting down.
Incredible as it may seem, thanks to the Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites are closing down by 17 March, rather than face threats of fines that could lose their operators their homes.
There's been a lot of discussion on it. A few folks that I know that live in the UK are still debating on whether they even want to keep running a site due to the requirements and the possibility of punishment if they don't do perfect. And no, none of them run big sites, but should it matter whether the site is large or small?
It makes me happy that I don't live over there but sad for the ones that have to deal with it.
But who knows how long it will be before we in the US are facing these types of policies...
I'm all about privacy and security but I'm not for anything that stops the little guy who doesn't have the money like Microsoft and Amazon does to be able to ensure they 100% comply. Then they don't always comply the way they should have. And they're in front of Senate committees.
It seems like anymore, having a website, running a community is just one hot McDonald's coffee away from spilling you into a lawsuit or some sort of trouble with big brother.
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