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>>ColinW+(OP)
As much as I hate this legislation, this is really just a small forum deciding they don't have the time to understand the legislation and therefore it's easier to block IP's from the UK (while it's not even clear if that will exempt them from liability). Fair enough but hardly earth shattering. I remember several US based websites geo-blocking all of Europe after GDPR came in (I think the LA Times was one of the biggest) and that went on for years.

We need legislation that tackles the various issues this legislation aims to tackle but in much more targeted ways. It needs to specifically target the biggest social media companies (Meta, X, Reddit, etc). Smaller forums are irrelevant. If your algorithm recommends self-harm content to kids who then go on to kill themselves it is right that you should be held responsible. "We're so big we can't be expected to police the content we host" should not be an acceptable argument.

>>basisw+t6
I think the legislation does not name specifically companies (that would be quite shortsighted since new apps etc appear all the time and they don't want to be updating legislation every time something gets popular), but simply says if you have more than 7 million 30-day active UK users of the user-to-user part of your site, then you're in-scope. That's quite a big audience.