Ofcom's new assertion that "visitors" and "users" are synonymous means I will need to revisit my assessment under the Online Safety Act of my personal fediverse instance.
I struggle conceptually with the notion that I am responsible for users on other people's instances, but I will do a further review, and likely will need to do an illegal content risk assessment and a children's risk assessment.
It is an undue burden, but for me it will be a useful enough learning exercise, and it will result in a public, permissively licensed, document.
#OnlineSafetyAct
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2025-01-21 16:10:33
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