Pinsent Masons: “Ofcom’s online safety work will be funded by the service providers it regulates. Fees will be calculated based on each provider’s ‘qualifying worldwide revenue’ (QWR)”

This was the vision of the OSA: a grift to tax big tech in general and surveil everybody and everything.

Companies with QWR above a particular threshold to be set by the Secretary of State will have a duty to pay fees under the regime. Ofcom has recommended that this threshold should be at or above £250 million, although it considers any figure between £200m and £500m would be appropriate.

Ofcom has recommended that the Secretary of State exempt providers of regulated services from payment of fees if their UK referable revenue is less than £10 million. ‘UK referable revenue’ is the revenues of a provider which may arise anywhere in the world but is attributable to the provision of one or more regulated services to UK users.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/online-safety-act-fees-penalties-revenue

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  1. UK Adult Producers

    We never voted for Age Verification. It was thrust upon us to deal with.

    If the government want Ofcom to do this then they should fund it

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