The Scottish Boinc Team

Due to changes in the Online Safety Act, which will take effect in July of 2025 and would require an unknown expense to make the TSBT forum compliant, the TSBT forum will be shutting down until a feasible solution can be implemented. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yikes!

The Online Safety Act is a ridiculously complex and frankly unworkable attempt to address some real issues. If taken as written then it would shut down not only this forum but pretty much every other forum in the UK & in theory any forum any where in the world which might ever be visited by someone from the Uk (good luck with enforcing that).

The intentions behind the act are sound, nobody here thinks children should be encouraged to kill themselves or exposed to pornography or groomed by paedophiles, but the effects of the legislation could be to shutdown most of the internet sites in the UK. Obviously this would be a bad thing. And I doubt if the real bad guys would quietly give up and go away.

I suggest we ignore it and carry on in our low key & otherwise blameless fashion.

I shall communicate my thoughts as to how we could carry on in a more private forum.

"...until a feasible solution can be implemented..."
I do hope that such a thing can be implemented in not too long a period. The AMD Users forum is already dead for all practical purposes -most likely because of a DDOS attack earlier and constant too high visitor numbers since. Luckily we, AMD Users, also have a Facebook-page.