the UK situation

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✶ READ ME ✶

super informal announcement bot to discuss the upcoming changes

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✶ what's happening? ✶

anyone with a UK IP address will be banned from from interacting janitor ai starting July 24 at 23:59 UTC.

✶ why is this happening? ✶

the 2023 UK online safety act (OSA) is a set of laws passed to protect online users and limit the harm of illegal online content, as well as making social media or other services responsible for user safety. yes, its a 'protect the children' law that applies to any online service that has user to user interaction, which includes janitor ai. to see more of how it impacted janitor ai specifically, you can read more about it here on shep's official blog if you haven't already.

in short, in order to not get janitor ai in trouble, UK IP's will be blocked as they do not have enough resources to comply

✶ what can be done about it? ✶

there are two things UK users can do

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