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Many such cases:

https://www.thehamsterforum.com/threads/big-sad-forum-news-o...

(Yes, the UK has effectively made it illegal to run a forum for people with pet hamsters.)



The unfortunate, but understandable, fallback suggestion from thehamsterforum of all moving over to Instagram shows why large corps _love_ laws like this. More laws just raises the barrier to entry until only those that have entire office blocks of lawyers can afford to participate.


I'm now intrigued to know what prompted them to reopen the forum after "something" was done.

They deal with compliance in their terms and apparently did a reboot and apparently introduced new modding tools.

Did they reach the conclusion that they are not pose significant risks and that their tools are sufficient?

I'm very curious


The forum is still up so was this thread in fact mistaken?


Makes Fleabag’s cafe more normal (Guinea Pigs are not Hamsters, I know).


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You can afford to be so flippant because in the chance that Ofcom's enforcement will lead to prison or another punishment, it won't be you who's suffering it.


They won't gonna imprison you because of hamsters.




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