UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say

BBender about 3 hours ago 2 commentsRead Article on theregister.com

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fyredge•19 minutes ago

> UK politicians had pushed for controls covering such features, either through the OSA or separate legislation, but none has materialized.

So it's not that online safety act didn't work, but rather that it was not enforced? I'm not familiar with the legislation, but I do hope that they implemented penalties for companies who do not follow the law, bit meaningless if they didn't.

rcxdude•16 minutes ago

The context for that is regulation on social media features (e.g. allowing opting out if an algorithmic feed), as opposed to the bans on certain age groups for certain kinds of websites that actually made it into the legislation.

Other parts are criticising the regulator, but to be frank the politicians wrote a law that the regulator has basically no ability to actually make effective (for all the reasons that have been discussed here before ad nauseum).