i wonder how (indie) website hosts will deal with it.
neocities, nekoweb and leprd allow NSFW art/writings, but... is there a danger for them currently? i didn't see any posts about it, so i'm confused.
can anyone more tech-y than me explain how it works?
My site is hosted by Nearly Free Speech, which is based in the US. I suspect that if the UK government demanded compliance with the Online Safety Act their lawyers would send a response that translates to "Bugger off. We don't answer to Parliament or the Crown. There was a war over this back in 1776."
Kinda, Platforms are Required to do the Age Verification in the UK. So if Nekoweb, Neocites, etc are accessible from the UK they do have to Implement the Age Verification to all people from the UK. They can Avoid it by blocking all traffic from there, or do what other Platforms use and implement an Age Verification Service to all Traffic from the UK. But yeah every Company and Person has to implement smth like that if they are Accessible from there.
That is the Legal part, so it doesn't matter where the Server or Company sits, It's from where it is reachable that is important. And Treaty between most of the Western world would require these Companies to be Fined and Judged in the UK. Tho this is a bit of more unchartered territory.
On the Technical side, how do they know where you are from. Simply the IP, the IP that is given to you to Access the Internet with is Geotagged by you ISP. This is normal, every Public IP is tagged, the Accuracy of tagging can get as Accurate to City level or as in accurate as only saying your in that Country. This Depends on the ISP.
Posts & Arts: 62/1k.beats
Love is not possession 
Author
