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    20-year-old browser game to shut down as result of UK's new online safety law
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    20-year-old browser game to shut down as result of UK’s new online safety law

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    1. Swimming_Map2412 on

      The online safety act is turning out to be a complete farce, shutting down small forums blogs and games while do nothing about large social media it was supposedly created to police.

    2. Practical-Edge2467 on

      A few games I used to play closed down a while back to due online regulations. Eu and the UK regulates and doesn’t innovate, no surprise our markets and productivity is flat.

    3. CarcasticSunt42O on

      Why can’t they just host it on some Asian server? 😐

      Guess potential legal threats are too much for a one man passion project 😔

    5. flings_flans on

      I’m wondering if anything’s going to happen to nationstates.net

      That thing has been going a very long time.

    6. Codeworks on

      Remember this next time someone says “why don’t we have a home grown UK or EU social media platform”.

    7. ScaredActuator8674 on

      Out of curiosity can someone explain how Urban Dead would violate the act?

    8. Graham99t on

      The online censorship bill has nothing to do with safety and is only about stopping political opposition to the government’s extreme commie narrative.

    9. United_Bug_9805 on

      Government censorship doesn’t make anyone safer and it messes everyone up.

    10. aloudcitybus on

      I just logged onto my account on there for the first time in about 15 years. I’m amazed it and it’s wiki is still running!

    11. Astriania on

      There’s a lot of noise like this around, but really, the Act does not place requirements that onerous on providers. You basically need a moderation team, a point of contact, promise to take down bad content quickly and have a mechanism to report it. Any online game with a chat function should have these things already.

      Unless you think your game is widely used to disburse terrorist manuals and child porn, but in that case, it’s probably a good thing it gets shut down.

    13. Armodeen on

      Oh wow I used to be really into Urban Dead back in the day. I checked and my characters are still there. Shame.