- Staff
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Just for information as we will probay be hearing a lot about this the coming months.
In March 2025 the Online Safety Act is due to take full effect. We don't think this Act will impact us too much, if at all, but there may be some changes required and new documentation produced to cover some points.
Just by being a site with members from the UK this may impact us in some way though it is definitely aimed at larger sites and social media platforms.
We will have to delete any content which is illegal, but also have a complaints process in place so that anyone who complains about their content being removed has that addressed promptly
The kinds of illegal content and activity that platforms need to protect users from are set out in the Act, and this includes content relating to:
1. Terrorism
2. Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA)
3. Grooming
4. Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
5. Hate
6. Harassment, stalking, threats and abuse
7. Controlling or coercive behaviour
8. Intimate image abuse
9. Extreme pornography
10. Sexual exploitation of adults
11. Human Trafficking
12. Unlawful Immigration
13. Fraud and financial services offences
14. Proceeds of crime
15. Drugs and psychoactive substances
16. Firearms, knives and other weapons
17. Encouraging or assisting suicide
18. Foreign interference
19. Animal cruelty
20. Epilepsy trolling
21. Cyberflashing
22. Encouraging or assisting self-harm
23. False communications
24. Obscene content showing torture of humans and animals (the s.127(1) offence)
25. Threatening communications
We are expected to police and remove these. The majority will be quite straightforward but we have to make the judgement on what is illegal and what isn't.
We don't think we have any illegal content so this shouldn't effect us too much other than possibly having to put some safety checks in place.
Gemma is very robust with her monitoring of members and has various security measures in place. She also deletes members who aren't active in terms of posting or logging into the site. Being a closed site with referral only registration certainly benefits us in some ways.
In March 2025 the Online Safety Act is due to take full effect. We don't think this Act will impact us too much, if at all, but there may be some changes required and new documentation produced to cover some points.
Just by being a site with members from the UK this may impact us in some way though it is definitely aimed at larger sites and social media platforms.
We will have to delete any content which is illegal, but also have a complaints process in place so that anyone who complains about their content being removed has that addressed promptly
The kinds of illegal content and activity that platforms need to protect users from are set out in the Act, and this includes content relating to:
1. Terrorism
2. Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA)
3. Grooming
4. Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
5. Hate
6. Harassment, stalking, threats and abuse
7. Controlling or coercive behaviour
8. Intimate image abuse
9. Extreme pornography
10. Sexual exploitation of adults
11. Human Trafficking
12. Unlawful Immigration
13. Fraud and financial services offences
14. Proceeds of crime
15. Drugs and psychoactive substances
16. Firearms, knives and other weapons
17. Encouraging or assisting suicide
18. Foreign interference
19. Animal cruelty
20. Epilepsy trolling
21. Cyberflashing
22. Encouraging or assisting self-harm
23. False communications
24. Obscene content showing torture of humans and animals (the s.127(1) offence)
25. Threatening communications
We are expected to police and remove these. The majority will be quite straightforward but we have to make the judgement on what is illegal and what isn't.
We don't think we have any illegal content so this shouldn't effect us too much other than possibly having to put some safety checks in place.
Gemma is very robust with her monitoring of members and has various security measures in place. She also deletes members who aren't active in terms of posting or logging into the site. Being a closed site with referral only registration certainly benefits us in some ways.
