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fanofeverything25 said:
cant you guys still prevent the regs from becoming law till? like tell them to outright scrap the bill and prevent those regs from taking effect at ALL?

i suggest you and other forums based in the UK should stage and organize some sort of blackout. no one has access to the entire site for a day and its instead a page in black explaining the law and its potential effects to site users and telling people to ask lawmakers to scrap it if there the UK and resources to help if you're in another country. maybe even get some bigger forums/sites that are UK based but are not subject by these laws to do this as well in order to create a bigger impact.

in the US when the infamous Stop Online Piracy Act was about to take affect, many sites from Reddit to Wikipedia did that and it got so much attention that the gov eventually killed the bill when the sponsors of it dropped out and withdrew their support for the law because of the very public backlash they were getting thanks to that bill. similar coalition of non profits , sites, and companies based in the UK do a blackout like this the, if this d creates the same effect that the US did hopefully the gov will realize that what there doing is actually shite and backpedal just like how the US did if a
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That's what the brass here are trying to do by collaborating with other forum owners.
 
SpanishSpy said:
Letter-writing campaign to MPs, as discussed previously in this thread.

Most MPs probably don't use small fora to the point that a blackout would be useful.
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here's the thing, some like Rishi Sunak and Kier Starmer who ar very powerful people still support this, if such a blackout got enough attention they would HAVE to comment to their constituents as to why half of their favorite UK-based websites cannot be accessed at this moment and if they can undo this/ explain to them why this has happened, otherwise those exact same constituents might not want to vote for them come the next general election. the Senators who sponsored SOPA withdrew their backing because they were clearly disturbed by what their constituents were saying and they wanted to secure their re-election prospects so they did something they thought could get a few more votes.

letter-writing issint enough, at best there might be some rumbles of change and at worst they'll be thrown out as spam. we need to take direct action at these MP's NOW in a non violent way, make them truly feel vulnerable and second guess their opinions on this matter and this is a time and tested way to do that.
 
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fanofeverything25 said:
here's the thing, some like Rishi Sunak and Kier Starmer who ar very powerful people still support this, if such a blackout got enough attention they would HAVE to comment to their constituents as to why half of their favorite UK-based websites cannot be accessed at this moment and if they can undo this/ explain to them why this has happened, otherwise those exact same constituents might not want to vote for them come the next general election. the Senators who sponsored SOPA withdrew their backing because they were clearly disturbed by what their constituents were saying and they wanted to secure their re-election prospects so they did something they thought could get a few more votes.

letter-writing issint enough, at best there might be some rumbles of change and at worst they'll be thrown out as spam. we need to take direct action at these MP's NOW in a non violent way, make them truly feel vulnerable and second guess their opinions on this matter and this is a time and tested way to do that.
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You know, I've had a lot of fun on SLP, and I'll miss it if it's gone. But, uh, I don't think it's gonna be planning civil disobedience marches any time soon.
 
fanofeverything25 said:
here's the thing, some like Rishi Sunak and Kier Starmer who ar very powerful people still support this, if such a blackout got enough attention they would HAVE to comment to their constituents as to why half of their favorite UK-based websites cannot be accessed at this moment and if they can undo this/ explain to them why this has happened, otherwise those exact same constituents might not want to vote for them come the next general election. the Senators who sponsored SOPA withdrew their backing because they were clearly disturbed by what their constituents were saying and they wanted to secure their re-election prospects so they did something they thought could get a few more votes.

letter-writing issint enough, at best there might be some rumbles of change and at worst they'll be thrown out as spam. we need to take direct action at these MP's NOW in a non violent way, make them truly feel vulnerable and second guess their opinions on this matter and this is a time and tested way to do that.
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Forums like this are very very small part of the internet.

Facebook, Instagram and professional websites are the vast majority and they have legal teams to deal with this. (and you can argue that their aim (at least Meta's) is to close down small fora
 
The fact is nothing we do matters. Either the site dies in March or it doesn't. The staff here are doing what they can, but if that's not enough then we'll all have to go to Reddit or Discord and there's nothing that can be done. If it comes to that then it makes the internet worse, but it's what the government want, and it will never be liberalised.
 
@Meadow given that the Ofcom guidance won't be issued until the end of the month; and the conversations here have devolved into either "just don't be nonces" or "simply deploy an internet-wide campaign against regulations which have already been signed into legislation and are shortly to be enacted"

might it be best to temporarily close the thread until Ofcom speaks?
 
Lemon flavoured said:
The fact is nothing we do matters. Either the site dies in March or it doesn't. The staff here are doing what they can, but if that's not enough then we'll all have to go to Reddit or Discord and there's nothing that can be done.
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Is there nothing to be said for making the theme of this month’s vignette contest “The Handsomeness of Keir Starmer”?
 
Skinny87 said:
@Meadow given that the Ofcom guidance won't be issued until the end of the month; and the conversations here have devolved into either "just don't be nonces" or "simply deploy an internet-wide campaign against regulations which have already been signed into legislation and are shortly to be enacted"

might it be best to temporarily close the thread until Ofcom speaks?
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Good idea.

Thread locked, mods will post updates here as and when.

I should emphasise that we feel optimistic internally - Iain has worked hard to look into what we'd be required to do and so far it looks like things we could do. Even if things don't liberalise at the end of the month, provided they don't actually get worse, we seem to have a way forward.
 
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