ContentDB - new terms of service, Online Safety Act

[rubenwardy]

Hi everyone.

Terms of Service

To comply with the UK's Online Safety Act, I've introduced a new Terms of Service to ContentDB: https://content.luanti.org/terms/

The most significant thing here is a list of prohibited content. This was copied from the Act and is content which is either illegal or would require "strong age verification" (ie: privacy invasive)

I will soon notify all ContentDB users with an email address and publish a notice on the website.

Risk Assessment

ContentDB already has active moderation and measures to reduce harm. We've not had a single case of illegal content to date.

As required, I've conducted a risk assessment and made the following changes:

• Screenshot manual approval: Screenshots are manually reviewed by moderators for New Members and Members. Trusted Members and above are exempt. Previously, only New Members required screenshot review.
• Packages that depict illegal drugs (as defined by UK law) are no longer permitted
• You can no longer make private standard threads. Package approval threads are still private.

I will be updating the reporting system to ensure compliance with the Act. I have 6 months to do this.

I am not required to introduce proactive technology to scan for illegal content.

This process required reading 100s of pages of ofcom guidance and creating a 50 page report for ContentDB. Thank you UK for keeping the Internet safe from UK innovation

[Blockhead]

This process required reading 100s of pages of ofcom guidance and creating a 50 page report for ContentDB. Thank you UK for keeping the Internet safe from UK innovation

Hear, hear! The last thing the UK tech landscape needs is new entrants. Meanwhile in my own country, they plan to ban social media for under-16s, which I'm sure won't be simultaneously ineffective, costly and privacy-invasive at all, no.

Big thanks for going through what it took to do the compliance work. That deserves a donation in my book.

Also a small rest in pieces to the few mods that contained weed on ContentDB.

And my sympathies to the moderation team for their increased workloads.

[Melkor]

what? wtf?

[Astrobe]

My empathy.

That said, there is a popular game with "Blox" in its name which is famous for being abused by some disgusting people. We don't want that reputation either (that's actually mainly in the hands of Luanti game server operators, though). Even if this country has a ministry of silly walks, it still however "walks" a bit.

[Melkor]

Meanwhile in my own country, they plan to ban social media for under-16s

I'm totally ok with that, social networks like twitter are nothing more than garbage, just like their owner.
Kids and teenagers should have a device with the bare minimum.

[Blockhead]

Meanwhile in my own country, they plan to ban social media for under-16s

I'm totally ok with that, social networks like twitter are nothing more than garbage, just like their owner.
Kids and teenagers should have a device with the bare minimum.

I'm not going to comment on this more than one, because off-topic. To say it concisely: When parents parent properly, then yes, they should teach their kids responsible use or avoidance of social media. But when the government cooks up some scheme that's going to inevitably involve biometric scanning, government IDs, and probably sharing them with some "trusted" third parties to verify people, then no, it's not really a net positive. I've spoken to a teen, who said a friend could just scan her face and that Facebook just thought she was old enough. So like I said, ineffective, costly and privacy-invasive.

ContentDB is thankfully quite kid-friendly, without being dumb about it like Mojang's hatred for firearms in Minecraft.

[ShallowDweller]

Meanwhile in my own country, they plan to ban social media for under-16s

I'm totally ok with that, social networks like twitter are nothing more than garbage, just like their owner.
Kids and teenagers should have a device with the bare minimum.

I'm not going to comment on this more than one, because off-topic. To say it concisely: When parents parent properly, then yes, they should teach their kids responsible use or avoidance of social media. But when the government cooks up some scheme that's going to inevitably involve biometric scanning, government IDs, and probably sharing them with some "trusted" third parties to verify people, then no, it's not really a net positive. I've spoken to a teen, who said a friend could just scan her face and that Facebook just thought she was old enough. So like I said, ineffective, costly and privacy-invasie.

ContentDB is thankfully quite kid-friendly, without being dumb about it like Mojang's hatred for firearms in Minecraft.

Not to mention people in their 20s and later who may appear too young (I know a few). Or good old makeup.

Will this act affect mods that use hemp as a source of fiber with no narcotic properties or is fiber hemp fine?

[Blockhead]

Will this act affect mods that use hemp as a source of fiber with no narcotic properties or is fiber hemp fine?

This affects representations of illegal drugs, not a specific plant. Industrial hemp like in Technic (plus) is not going to be affected. By the way, industrial hemp is much lower in THC (the stuff that gets you high) than the marijuana/cannabis plants grown to get high off, and this is regulated. For instance, in Victoria and NSW Australia, you can grow hemp as a crop as long as it's got <1% THC content and seed from <0.5% THC.

[ShallowDweller]

This affects representations of illegal drugs, not a specific plant. Industrial hemp like in Technic (plus) is not going to be affected. By the way, industrial hemp is much lower in THC (the stuff that gets you high) than the marijuana/cannabis plants grown to get high off, and this is regulated. For instance, in Victoria and NSW Australia, you can grow hemp as a crop as long as it's got <1% THC content and seed from <0.5% THC.

glad to know. hemp is such a useful resource in the mods that add it.