The GamingOnLinux Forum is shutting (archive.is)
from hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world on 20 Dec 00:26
https://sh.itjust.works/post/29741821

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umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml on 20 Dec 01:18 next collapse

TL;DR: The UK OSBA strikes again.

Edit: l long thought it were named Bill, not Act. Sorry for the confusion.

sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works on 20 Dec 02:29 next collapse

What is the UK OSB?

edit: Online Safety Act

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 20 Dec 02:57 collapse

What’s the B? Bureau?

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 20 Dec 03:20 next collapse

I said biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch!

crawancon@lemm.ee on 20 Dec 05:40 collapse

(looks around for wife)

Mac@mander.xyz on 20 Dec 06:00 collapse

whispers
I said, I said, I said…

sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works on 20 Dec 15:22 collapse

I still don’t know.

Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world on 20 Dec 07:31 next collapse

How does it strike again though?

Reading over the government page for this act, it seems like common sense. I get the impression that any properly moderated forum would already be implementing such measures.

Am I missing something.

conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works on 21 Dec 11:57 collapse

Because it opens them up to obscene liability if they don’t have enforcement and age verifications well outside the range of what anyone who isn’t a massive business is capable of implementing.

shaun@lemmy.world on 20 Dec 11:08 collapse

You are right though. It was named a Bill, now it is named an Act :⁠-⁠) www.parliament.uk/about/how/…/bills-acts/

Botzo@lemmy.world on 20 Dec 05:01 next collapse

In lieu of another alternative: !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

Cheems@lemmy.world on 20 Dec 05:12 next collapse

SHUTTING WHAT

bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net on 20 Dec 07:46 next collapse

Just the forum they are still publishing articles

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 20 Dec 09:14 next collapse

The forum.

blind3rdeye@lemm.ee on 20 Dec 12:58 collapse

Yes. The GamingOnLinux Forum is shutting The forum.

woodgen@lemm.ee on 20 Dec 12:35 next collapse

down

gingernate@sopuli.xyz on 20 Dec 13:15 next collapse

The goddamn door

vithigar@lemmy.ca on 20 Dec 15:53 collapse

It’s much better to face these kinds of things

WastingCommentSpace@sh.itjust.works on 20 Dec 16:12 collapse

With a sense of poise and rationality.

model_tar_gz@lemmy.world on 20 Dec 13:57 collapse

Up

ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net on 21 Dec 18:47 collapse

Dog. Gottem.

e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de on 20 Dec 13:17 next collapse

What a ridiculous overreaction.

DollarColonial@lemmy.ml on 22 Dec 00:03 collapse

What the bill does ?

I saw also a cycling community closing