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If you read that guidance, it wants you to have a moderation policy for 17 specific priority areas. You need prove you can demonstrate that you have thought about it. You need to have a paper trail that says you have a policy and that its a policy. You _could_ be issued with a "information notice", which you have to comply with. Now, you could get that already, with the RIPA, as a communications provider.

this is similar to running a cricket club, or scout club

For running a scout association each lesson could technically require an individual risk assessment for every piece of equipment, and lesson. The hall needs to be safe, and you need to prove that it's safe. Also GDPR, and safeguarding, background checks, money laundering.

> hold up to legal scrutiny from an activist court official

Its not the USA. activist court officials require a functioning court system. Plus common law has the concept of reasonable. A moderated forum will be of a much higher standard of moderation than facebook/twitter/tiktok.