TikTok are challenging the constitutionality of the new law to ban them from the USA unless they sell the company by 20/1/25.
America & the UK fear that the Chinese Government will use the platform for their own ends (they are believed to have very recently hacked into our MOD system containing details of personnel).
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Ofcom to require changes to be made to 'toxic' algorithms to comply with the Online Safety Act:
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre...0plans%20today.
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Originally Posted by Chris
You’re still missing the point by a country mile. To get fined at all, you have to get found guilty first. To get found guilty you have to have failed to take *reasonable* measures to moderate offensive content. The test of what is *reasonable* varies depending on the resources of the website involved.
Small volunteer community websites do not have the same resources as Facebook. They are not, and will not be, required to act as if they do have the same resources as Facebook.
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Parliament sometimes passes laws using the word 'reasonable'. On the one hand it allows for common sense and fairness, but on the other it leaves what is 'reasonable' to be open to interpretation.
I'm told that what usually happens is that the relevant law is tested in the courts to establish a precedence. After this, case law is generally used to argue for or against the issue in any future litigation.