Hundreds of small websites could be shut down due to Britain’s Online Security Act

Hundreds of small websites could be shut down due to Britain’s Online Security Act


Small website owners say they may be forced to close

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Hundreds of community websites and forums could be permanently shut down as a result of the UK’s new Online Safety Act, as site administrators say they fear the law imposes significant liabilities and exposes them to potential million-pound fines. Does.

“We fall firmly into scope, and I have no way of dodging it,” says Dee Kitchen, who runs the cycling forum LFGSS For its 70,000 members. “The Act is too broad.”

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