If anyone - ISP, web hosting company, domain registrar etc - makes a DNS server (PowerDNS, bind and so on) available for its customers to use, to host and share authoritative DNS records, I've a nasty feeling that that they are (or at least could be) providing a regulated user-to-user service too.
That hadn't crossed my mind before.
If only there was a clearer understanding of "user".
Whoops :(
I've just realised that I've opened myself up to considerable personal liability because I haven't done an illegal content risk assessment or a child access assessment under the #OnlineSafetyAct for our jellyfin media server instance.
Sandra and I can both upload to it, and can both see what the other has uploaded.
The lack of a family / household purposes / small user group and inherently low risk service exemption is absurd.
#OnlineSafetyAct news:
Ofcom is today opening investigations into two pornographic services - Itai Tech Ltd and Score Internet Group LLC - under our age assurance enforcement programme.
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Encouragingly, many services confirmed that they are implementing, or have plans to implement, age assurance on around 1,300 sites. A small number of services chose to block UK users from accessing their sites, rather than putting age checks in place.
For "tube" sites / user-generated content sites, the deadline is July.
"On 8 May, 2025, the @wikimediafoundation, the nonprofit that hosts @wikipedia, announced that it is challenging the lawfulness of the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA)’s Categorisation Regulations. We are arguing that they place Wikipedia and its users at unacceptable risk of being subjected to the OSA’s toughest “Category 1” duties, which were originally designed to target some of the UK’s riskiest websites."
»#Wikipedia is taking #legalaction against British #OnlineSafetyAct it says could threaten the #safety of its #volunteereditors and their ability to keep harmful content off the site.« https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62j2gr8866o?eicker.news #tech #media #news
#UK-#US #trade 'deal’ - ‘There had been speculation that #Trump’s team would insist on concessions in [#digital services #taxes or online safety] as a price to reduce tariffs – which could have caused a big political storm.
'But answering questions in the Commons on the deal, Douglas #Alexander, the trade minister, told MPs there had been no changes on either.’ #DMCCA #OnlineSafetyAct https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/08/cars-steel-and-hormone-fed-beef-the-key-points-of-the-ukus-trade-deal
#Wikipedia legally challenges 'flawed' online safety rules
Wikipedia legally challenges 'flawed' online safety rules
Wikipedia is taking legal action against new Online Safety Act regulations it says could threaten the safety of its volunteer editors and their ability to keep harmful content off the site.
More #OnlineSafetyAct news:
Statement of Strategic Priorities for Online Safety
Ofcom must have regard to this statement when exercising its OSA regulatory functions.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statement-of-strategic-priorities-for-online-safety
The UK government must change the categorisation of sites under the Online Safety Act to protect net plurality.
Small and well moderated sites should be exempt from these duties to stop them from closing or blocking UK users.
Tell your MP to #SaveOurSites 
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Wikipedia @wikimediauk are going to court over the UK Online Safety Act!
Saddling platforms with hefty duties and penalties under the new regime will cause many safe sites to fold.
We can't lose the best of the web due to laws that were meant to tackle the worst of it.
Wikipedia are challenging the UK's new Online Safety Act in court: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/08/wikipedia-challenging-uk-law-it-says-exposes-it-to-manipulation-and-vandalism
The organisation behind Wikipedia - the Wikimedia Foundation - has launched a judicial review challenge against Ofcom's categorisation rules under the #OnlineSafetyAct.
Not against the Act itself, just a specific approach taken by Ofcom to it.
More details here (Medium; sorry): https://medium.com/wikimedia-policy/wikipedias-nonprofit-host-brings-legal-challenge-to-new-online-safety-act-osa-regulations-0f9153102f29
well brits, time to learn how to use a VPN or time to learn how to do without #Wikipedia
do you think ofcom would accept leisure suit larry style questions as a form of age verification #onlinesafetyact
First time I've seen a geoblock explicitly because of the #OnlineSafetyAct
Almost certainly won't be the last, but what makes it interesting is that it's just a regular blog with (judging by a page worth's of past posts on an archive) nothing particularly risky (let alone risque).
More signs that this current authoritarian push for age verification and censorship will fail. #OnlineSafetyAct
Letter from DSIT SoS Peter Kyle to Layla Moran MP about impact of #OnlineSafetyAct on small community forum sites. https://b2fxxx.blogspot.com/2025/04/response-from-government-over-concerns.html
I wonder just how much thought has gone into the security problems being created by the demand for aggressive age/ID verification? #OnlineSafetyAct
Competition makes for a safer Internet.
We urge UK Ministers to exempt small community sites that are at little risk of hosting harmful content and not force them to collapse under the weight of disproportionate duties.
Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
