here is the official uk online safety act roadmap.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/important-dates-for-online-safety-compliance>August-November 2025>Ofcom issues draft and final transparency notices to categorised services>Categorised services respond to transparency notices>October - December 2025>Fees regime comes into forceso if you're wondering about specific sites that haven't been hit yet you might be seeing changes within the next few months.
>16 December 2024>Ofcom publishes illegal content risk assessment guidancehttps://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/quick-guide-to-online-safety-risk-assessments>Our resources to help you complete your illegal content risk assessment>Our Risk Assessment Guidance and Risk Profiles (PDF, 852.72 KB) provides detailed guidance of the four-step process that we have summarised below.well they weren't lying about detailed guidance.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/online-safety/information-for-industry/illegal-harms/register-of-risks.pdfthis is the pdf. it is 480 pages long.
at first i was going to make this post more relevant to the central conceit of the happenings thread. maybe some data or comparisons with the published definitions and criteria. but i opted against that. here are some links.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/contentsthe official text of the law.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/online-safety/information-for-industry/illegal-harms/overview-of-regulated-services.pdfoverview. this one is only 18 pages. pic from this pdf.
>1.11 The Act does not define what is meant by a ‘significant number’ of UK users for the purposes of considering the ‘UK links’ test. Service providers should be able to explain their judgement.>1.12 the Act is only concerned with the number of users in the UK ... Whether a user is or is not registered with the service does not matter.quotes from the pdf.
