I've been reading a bit more about the bill, so like ... looks like we'll have our messages / posts scanned for automatic flagging purposes and we'll have an age verification system put in place.
And some sort of system to identify who people are since you cannot be anonymous under the law?
Once this gets rolling, it might be smart to shut the forums down. You cannot incite violence, and every day someone here in P&N is talking about how XYZ should die. lol. We got some really unhinged folk around here, and all hell is going to break loose if they start getting reined in to comply with the law by the mod team.
Not to mention EVERYTHING ever posted will need to be combed-over. Decades. Decades. How the fuck is ANY forum that's owned by an English company supposed to comply?
Site-wide word-searches, I guess.
This law is fuckin' nuts.
It's looking like the best option is to quickly spin us off to a company elsewhere outside of the UK so we can resume our wild, wild west ways, otherwise Future plc could be liable for millions in a hurry.
Hopefully this is a nothing-burger but shit could get real.
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