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Hopefully the new law is enforced sensibly, i.e., with much leniency given to smaller defendants, but hoping for that to be the case is a terrible strategy. The risk is certainly not zero as you claim -- all it takes is for one high-profile case of leniency resulting in some terrible outcome (e.g., child abuse) getting into the news, and the government employees responsible for enforcement will snap to a policy of zero-tolerance.

> provided you can demonstrate you're taking whatever measures are recommended by Ofcom

That level of moderation might not be remotely feasible for a sole operator. And yes, there's a legitimate social question here: Should we as a society permit sites/forums that cannot be moderated to that extent? But the point I'm trying to make is not whether the answer to that question is yes or no, it's that the consequences of this Act are that no sensible individual person or small group will now undertake the risk of running such a site.