In the light of today's confirmation decisions from Ofcom, I have updated my blogpost about what constitutes a "significant" number of users for the purposes of Part 3 #OnlineSafetyAct
Nothing ground-breaking in there, tbh.
But I do have concerns around some of the "target market" analysis, in terms of pornography services.
https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/03/what-number-of-uk-users-constitutes-a-significant-number-for-the-purposes-of-the-online-safety-act-2023/
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