Skewered in the sewer with Sir Kier
Those who have taken an informed, careful approach to IT developments over the years, who have opted to learn how to maintain the core parts of their own infrastructure (eg. on premises, low cost) rather than opt in to all the "free" cloudy stuff will be penalised here again.
Last year I had to shutter some self-hosted alternative social media instances because OSA made them too risky to continue to administer. OSA skewered me by pushing me closer to big social media because they were promising to offer effective compliance with the new law in a way I could not. Email only survives because there is a specific exemption; the overly broad language of the rest of the law requires that named exceptions have to be made.
This breadth means it is now illegal to develop new forms of digital communication in the UK, ie. we are stuck with the slop they are now trying to fix, rather than being able to step out of the mire with something new.
OSA was going to make everything better but it hasn't, and now they want to do more and move even faster.
Not everyone has jumped into the sewer, Sir Keir. In your haste to scramble out - and I inderstand your new-found horror, it has motivated me to take the approach I have these past decades - please take the care you should to avoid pulling others down into it and giving them the problem you have made for yourself.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
