Libs gonna push and push to censor TikTok, etc… Until the precedent comes back to haunt them.
This is OSA in the UK, not KOSA in the US. I don’t disagree with you, but this was just British conservatives doing their thing, not based off of US legal precedents.
We have the power to fine companies up to £18m or 10% of their qualifying worldwide revenue – whichever is greater – and in very serious cases we can apply for a court order to block a site in the UK.
Firstly I’d expect regulators to focus on the big fish rather than this minnow. Secondly losing 10% of revenue isn’t a huge deal whilst any fines larger than that would get the entire news media rallying behind you. Shutting down the site is premature to say the least.
That being said I am surprised that this legislation applies to everyone immediately. You’d think they’d start with a high threshold of say 1 million active monthly users and then reduce that each year as practices and technologies get established. It’s ridiculous to expect hobbyists and small scale operations to be able to meet this burden just as easily as multi-trillion pound corporations.