Pinno718
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The repost here does perhaps give it an unintended implication![]()
Yes unintended. I did not expect to have the last post and wasn't trying, honest. I thought there would be a flurry of posters and any chance would be 100:1.
The new legislation: is it backed up, i.e how on earth do the legislators police it? I am sure that the reaction to the legislation is in part paranoia. Given the number of forums and the usual suspects which are synonymous with abuse, fraud, misogyny, terrorism face ache, X, Jihad online etc I presume that there are computer algorithms that flag key words. Given the millions of post on those forums on a daily basis, the red flags will be amongst them, not benign forums like CC/BR/LFGSS etc.
The strongest protections in the Act have been designed for children. Platforms will be required to prevent children from accessing harmful and age-inappropriate content and provide parents and children with clear and accessible ways to report problems online when they do arise.
The Act will also protect adult users, ensuring that major platforms will need to be more transparent about which kinds of potentially harmful content they allow, and give people more control over the types of content they want to see.
A above ^: Make it adult only. This circumvents that rule.
B This can be self policing. In all the forums I have been on, I have never witnessed posters who have actively promoted self harm, suicide and similar and had they, would have faced a backlash.
(Although to be fair, there is insufficient collective aversion to people riding Apollo bikes downhill. You should all be ashamed of yourselves).
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