• OT: Online Safety Act - some discussion forums closing

    From Adrian Caspersz@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 18 10:44:29 2025
    https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memoriam/


    Also posted in uk.comp.sys.mac

    Colin Macleod has recently put out this message to all registered
    users of
    NewsGrouper:

    [quote]
    UK Access will be blocked from 16th March

    You are seeing this page because you appear to be connecting from an IP address in the UK.

    On the 17th of March the UK's new Online Safety Act will start to be enforced. I thank all those who answered my survey on this. However I
    regret that I have \concluded that it is not practical for this site to comply with the OSA. So from 16th March I will block access from UK IP addresses, which puts it outside the scope of the act.

    Other web interfaces to Usenet are available, and may continue to
    allow UK
    users, see Wikipedia.

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-based_Usenet#Web-based_sites_and_popula
    rity> [end of quote]


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