Compliance costs are a couple of hours at most to do and record the assessments then the effort and discipline to moderate and react quickly to reports. That's it.

A lot of misplaced fear and over-reactions. For instance, lobste.rs could basically safely ignore the whole thing being a small, low risk forum based in the US.

> It took a fair amount of legal analysis to establish blog comments are OK (and its not clear whether off topic ones are)

It looks like it only took someone to actually read the Online Safety Act, as Ofcom's reply kindly points to the section that quite explicitly answers the question.

I don't think that the Online Safety Act is a good development but many of the reactions are over the top or FUD, frankly...