Bitcoin owner challenges the rules of classification as per UK’s online security law
Wikimedia Foundation, Hosts of Free Online Encyclopedia Is it Of (OSA). The law aims to protect consumers from harmful online content by imposing restrictions and penalties on large internet platforms such as social media companies. Although this Act was originally accepted in 2023, only the implementation and classification of companies subject to the law .
The law regulates online platforms into categories, followed by different levels of limitations and implementation. The Wikimedia is particularly challenging the “classification terms” according to the law, and the UK’s Communications Regulator, the Offcom, argues that a platform is using the defective and vague metrics system to ensure which category of a platform comes.
Underneath . It keeps Wikipedia similar to Facebook, X, YouTube and other enormous social platforms.
Phil Bradley-Shmig shared the chief counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation The foundation has been working with the UK regulators for years in an attempt to clarify the rules as the foundation is considered more fair.
Platforms recognized as Category 1 meet more strict requirements, how quickly they remove the content, Cyber threatening and blocking more. The Wikimedia Foundation argues that Bitcoin should not be overwhelmed into category 1, as it is a non-profit, advertising and mostly volunteer-operated service.
The foundation They eventually support the rules that improve online security. It is very unfortunate that “Bradley-Shimig wrote” OSA UK to make UK a safe place online, “Wikipedia’s volunteer editors’ privacy and security we are now protecting it from the defective law.”
