The Online Safety Act laws put the responsibility of policing illegal and harmful content on the online platforms. In the UK the Ofcom is responsible for setting the codes and enforcing compliance. UK is not the only country legislating the OSA, other countries are copy-pasting it into their laws, so it is spreading everywhere.
The OSA applies to "user-to-user" services and to "search" services, so a website's comment sections and social feeds fall under user-to-user and search bars and similar tools fall under search services. These definitions include Wordpress sites and other websites that have comment sections.
The UK is now running consultations to ban all news that is not mainstream news because traditional news does not have a strong presence on the internet and the risk of misinformation spreading. There are other laws like on device scanning on the way.
Literally every service and product is getting enshittified and lawmaker envy is overregulating everything that involves interaction.
What do you guys think of this? Shouldn't every website and app be talking and complaining about it?
