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   Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 19:40:51 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

   The GamingOnLinux Forum is shutting: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/6463/page=1/

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     Rob Johnson (robj@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 19:57:48 JST Rob Johnson

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     @gamingonlinux I understand your decision. Unfortunately, despite the language it hides behind, and some people working on it acting in good faith, I believe this new act is the opposite of well meaning.

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     Tobias Hellgren (thanius@mastodon.chuggybumba.com)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 20:00:10 JST Tobias Hellgren

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     @gamingonlinux We've had the same kind of law in Sweden since mid-80's called "the BBS law". I think it's a good idea - either moderate everything or don't allow unknown people onto the services that may post illegal stuff.

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     Tobias Hellgren (thanius@mastodon.chuggybumba.com)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 20:03:16 JST Tobias Hellgren

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     @gamingonlinux https://sv-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Lagen_om_ansvar_f%C3%B6r_elektroniska_anslagstavlor?_x_tr_sl=sv&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=sv&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 20:10:34 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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     • Tau 🏳️‍🌈

     @Tau for new users all posts go through approvals, but i'm not going to keep it open and manually approve every single post - madness

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     Tau 🏳️‍🌈 (tau@im-in.space)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 20:10:35 JST Tau 🏳️‍🌈

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     @gamingonlinux Didn't you have a approval system for comments? I don't about the law but I would have guessed that would be sufficient?

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     Björn (thaodan@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 20:14:18 JST Björn

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     @gamingonlinux Please include some exurb about the reason into the mastodon that will make it easier to share as it will reach more users what this act will do.
     The act does sound very concerning to say the least.

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 01:24:19 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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     • mmu_man

     @mmu_man yep, it sucks for everyone

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     mmu_man (mmu_man@m.g3l.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 01:24:21 JST mmu_man

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     @gamingonlinux damn this will only entice people more into walled gardens like Discord which content is not indexed and thus not available for others to find help from 😞

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 04:42:14 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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     In addition, just a word of advice: if you run a Mastodon server, or another fedi server: you seriously need to look up the UK Online Safety Act.

     It will affect you, it's social media, it's included in it as you have users posting content.

     https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/time-for-tech-firms-to-act-uk-online-safety-regulation-comes-into-force/

     If I was running one, to be blunt, I would just straight-up shut it down. Not worth the potential fines. This law is totally whack.

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 04:43:02 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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     And for the inevitable "But my server / i'm not in the UK!"

     It still affects you if you have UK users registered or not doesn't matter, if they're able to read anything.

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     Fabrizio Pelosi 🐧 (tesfabpel@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 04:56:40 JST Fabrizio Pelosi 🐧

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     @gamingonlinux what is the position of the current Parliament and Government? are they willing to amend the act to exempt some categories like community managed forums and the like?

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     Christian Tietze (ctietze@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 17:13:37 JST Christian Tietze

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     @gamingonlinux This sounds awful! But the link you shared doesn’t seem to say anything related to running your forum. What did I miss? (fellow forum
     operator here)

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     Kevin (notanonymous26@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 09:17:57 JST Kevin

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     @gamingonlinux holy shit I just read the post about you shutting down the whole forum. I totally understand your point , so banning the country was not an option?

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 09:17:57 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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     • Kevin

     @notanonymous26 i’m not banning the country i’m in lol