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>>ColinW+(OP)
Right or wrong I think many have misread the legislation or read poor coverage of it given people's reasoning.

Much of things boils down to doing a risk assessment and deciding on mitigations.

Unfortunately we live in a world where if you allow users to upload and share images, with zero checks, you are disturbingly likely to end up hosting CSAM.

Ofcom have guides, risk assessment tools and more, if you think any of this is relevant to you that's a good place to start.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-c...

>>IanCal+7b
You're right. Plus, the overreactions have been walked back or solved in some cases, e.g: LFGSS is going to continue on as a community ran effort which will comply with the risk assessment requirements. Most of the shutdowns are on long-dead forums that have been in need of an excuse to shutter. The number of active users impacted by these shutdowns probably doesn't break 100.