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Elsewhere:
The piece says:
UK immigration lawyers said earlier this week that they have received a spike in inquiries from “mobile, wealthy individuals in tech, law, and the arts” who are “worried about socially conservative policies that Trump could introduce once in office” so they are wanting to move to other countries, such as Britain.
So anyone doing well in those industries.
Dunno, it feels like rich Yanks are what got everything to this point. How about we grant asylum to Americans who are at the greatest risk of persecution?
Relax sphincters everyone, the sunny uplands are just ahead.
I think the deal is a 99 year lease. By which point it’d probably only be useful as a submarine base.
It already feels like the right wing parties are parroting whatever line the incoming Trump team want them to.
Those comments are interesting.
When you go to “create post” there is a field labeled “URL”, the main link goes in there.
That sounds “fun”.
Would the government even bother to check, for example, a Mastodon server with a thousand users?
Impossible to say at this point. You may get the full Eye of Sauron treatment if something bad happens and you’ve just ignored the laws. If you demonstrate you have made an effort (and the guidelines suggest small websites need only read the summaries and use the online tools) then you have started a dialogue and, if there is an issue, it might just need a chat rather than fines.
Out of interest, is there a summary or something?
Best one I’ve read so far is this.
I’ve started a Matrix space for folks on the Fediverse dealing with British issues like this and there is an OSA room where I’ll add more resources as they pop up on my radar.
I’ll also be reaching out to Admins of specifically British instances on the Fediverse too. We can probably pool our thoughts and not have to keep reinventing the wheel.
I have a freer week coming up and hope to make more progress on this.
He’s pretty unbiased, and explains it all really well for those of us with no knowledge of how that world works.
From my, admittedly limited, knowledge of high finance, he seems to know the score and be able to talk about it clearly and without being biased towards it.
Can you explain the link aggregator business once again for the heard of thinking? I’m not sure what you mean, but I’m assuming it’s something I’ve either completely ignored or misunderstood
Like Digg and Reddit, Lemmy is like earlier discussion forum software but set to favour the new post over a new comment and the key is the link, especially on Lemmy. So if I post the same link as someone else has done it will automatically add a link to that post too. It’s also why we prefer people post archive links in.the body of the post and the original link as the main one.
Yeah. I’m working through the Online Safety Act (slowly) and it is set up to not be too hard for small sites to hit the requirements (most of the Fediverse should be fine) but we’ll see what the landscape looks like when the online tools are available and we approach the date (April) the law comes into effect.
I’m not sure they do agree, with Facebook’s recent changes it sets them up for a head-on confrontation with the UK and EU. They probably didn’t bother arguing with an underling when they are just going to try and get Trump to bludgeon us into submission.
We’ll see how well such laws (and the food safety ones) fare in the face off the threats of major sanctions. I hope Starmer sticks to his guns but we might face a situation where the big social media firms (who are the target of these laws) get let off the hook, while smaller British websites struggle to jump through the hoops.
Big fan of Gary, he’s often spot on.
Note: as Lemmy is a link aggregator, try and add it to the relevant field when posting.
“[We] have very similar aims”
That’s all you need to know.
If I set up my own party I’d also be in the running for PM. It doesn’t mean anything though.
I thought so.
Yeah, yeah, he knows some legal mumbo jumbo but the Truster is powered by an idiotic self-belief.
You crash one economy…
Lettuce never forget.
I’ll start cutting the veg and get my biggest stew pot out.
Happy to brain drain the States, leave it to the idiots who voted in Orange Shitler. Which includes at least one of my second cousins, I suspect. The others are eligible for British citizenship so…