Websites für Erwachsene „ignorieren“ dreist Ofcom-Bußgelder: Watchdog erhält nur 55.000 £, nachdem er Bußgelder im Wert von 3 Millionen £ für Verstöße gegen die Online-Sicherheit verhängt hat
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/ofcom-fines-55-million-child-age-5HjdW55_2/
Von insomnimax_99
30 Kommentare
Well duh, how do you collect fines from companies that only have a virtual presence in the UK
If a website is based overseas, how would a fine be enforced?
Can the regulator block a website if they don’t pay a fine?
To think they could’ve reallocated money into social services or policing in order to actually tackle crime…
It’s almost like the online safety act is a joke, and everyone warned it was going to be a joke.
This was not a well thought out policy was it Ofcom?
whoever could possibly have predicted this
other than an average five year old
Oh no, who could possibly have foreseen this eventuality?
What a surprise, as if this wasn’t the obvious outcome 😂
And they want to ban VPN’s to stop people getting around the laws they put in place that are being ignored and are already proving a failure.
Honestly I hate this gesture politics bullshit where they push through nonsense they know won’t do anything just for positive media coverage. What a total waste of time.
good the only reason these came in is because google and palantir wanted to make it easier to track you
Good, it should be seen for the absolute joke it is.
OFCOM discover it’s difficult to fine a company that isn’t a legal entity in the UK.
Only thing they can do is make ISPs block the IP addresses. I’m going to guess that the companies not paying the fines don’t earn enough ad revenue to worry about losing access to the UK.
It’s almost like this whole piece of legislation was written by technically illiterate people who don’t know how the internet works and just want to poke their heads into what people are yanking their hog to.
They need to just ID people when they buy the PC or phone, or at OS level once. get rid of site to site its ridiculous. Children can have different devices that don’t have full Internet or whatever, one portal with only PG curated versions of websites that it is up to each company to make or not.
Almost like the OSA is wildly unpopular and the companies know it won’t last.
They really should just stop trying to control everything.
Some of these are the shadiest companies on the internet. Never had an account with them, or given them any money, and not going to change that, so I can use ID or whatever.
Maybe I shouldn’t have left my copies of Mayfair and Razzle in a garage for the next generation to find.
American companies protected by American laws vs some random island in the atlantic lets gooooooooooooooooo
This whole thing is ridiculous, it just penalise small niche sites and forum because they don’t hv the resources or want to take the risk.
I know a knitting forum and a doll forum shut because of this.
I’m a bit technologically illiterate so some help needed here.
Assuming a website m(outside the UK)ignores warnings and breaks regulations, how does the UK actually enforce fines/punishments for rule breaches?
Can the government make ISPs block all access to such websites in a way that can’t be gotten around(by VPNs for example)?
The fines should be made up for out of ofcoms budget, unacceptable for them to be failing to collect this.
How much money has been and is being spent to enforce these rules that cannot be enforceable?
No one wants this, no one asked for it, it’s a terrible political decision, it’s unenforceable, it’s costing the tax payer greatly and taking up political time when there are many more bigger issues at hand. Joke
What an utter waste of our taxes, paying staff and agencies to pursue utterly pointless shit like this that nobody even wanted in the first place.
Hilarious to see these idiots have effectively 0 power on a global scale. I wouldn’t expect any better from the self important pen pushers they employ
„It’s still early days. We’ve issued about six penalties so far, totaling around £3 million. We are seeing early signs that these penalties are having an impact.“
> £55,000 out of £3,000,000
> *Having an Impact*
They’ve made a whopping 1.8% of the fines imposed, and claim it’s *having an impact*
Textbook definition of COPE.
Anyone else think this feels like manufacturing consent to build a Hadrian’s firewall? I doubt the tech experts at Ofcom are *that* stupid to expect every website to comply with the fines or demands. We already saw that even 4chan called their bluff and have been in a lawsuit ever since.
Well who would have thought this would have happened? Trying to fine sites with no physical UK presence or assets isn’t going to be successful.
What next? Pointless waste of taxpayer money chasing them down, or admit that this is a fruitless exercise?
A better approach would have been to force UK ISPs to block the content by default, as a stretch ask/require router suppliers to force parental control configuration as part of the setup/first use step. Easier with ISP supplied modems.
The fundamental issue they are trying to resolve is unsupervised/uncontrolled internet which likely represents a tiny fraction of a percent of UK internet users.
People are missing the bigger picture in the comments. Failing to pay a fine eventually results in the removal of the website in the UK. So it isn’t a case of “we’re not paying and there’s nothing you can do about it”
Removing these websites from the internet completely is the goal of this government by the looks of it.
It’s hilarious to me all the moderated, popular sites ask for ID but all the unmoderated sites are easily acessed without a need for ID. I can’t imagine what kids are seeing now considering it’s easier for them to go to the bad sites than use a workaround for the moderated ones.
It’s not just porn sites either, they went after a Canadian suicide help website too.
Despite willing to block UK IPs Ofcom incorrectly tried saying they were not complying and they need to put age checks.
Their thread in UK legal advice:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/s/FECdGiWT76