The act is intentionally very vague and broad.

Generally, the gist is that it's up to the platforms themselves to assess and identify risks of "harm", implement safety measures, keep records and run audits. The guidance on what that means is very loose, but some examples might mean stringent age verifications, proactive and effective moderation and thorough assessment of all algorithms.

If you were to ever be investigated, it will be up to someone to decide if your measures were good or you have been found lacking.

This means you might need to spend significant time making sure that your platform can't allow "harm" to happen, and maybe you'll need to spend money on lawyers to review your "audits".

The repercussions of being found wanting can be harsh, and so, one has to ask if it's still worth it to risk it all to run that online community?

The base I think works like this:

- you scan the passport

- you look at the camera

- your passport details & photo are sent to the control room with your live feed

- a guy looks at everything those details plus your immigration history and other info

- same guy decides to let you in or send you to a desk

This was particularly obvious in the old Gibraltar border where you could easily be the only person going through and so the agent had to do the routine just to let you pass.

In a call I was explicitly told "every company does it like this, if that's not ok you might not be a right fit for this company".

The initial wording was very restrictive, like 5 minute acknowledgement time and 15 minutes at-laptop. 24/7 for 7 days. They tried to have this implemented without any extra remuneration or perks for the on-call engineer.

On top of it possibly being very illegal, it seems very immoral to spring something like that on people that did on agree to it when they took the job.

I fought for it and I got them to change their policy in 2 mostly meaningful ways:

- It's an opt-in method

- On-call engineers get paid extra for just being on-call and get extra time off whenever they need to actually do something.

This makes sure that you only get people actually willing to do it and there is an incentive. I think it's been quite a successful program!

Luckily I didn't need to get them involved, but in the UK there are unions starting to form for tech workers, I suggest you join one like https://prospect.org.uk/tech-workers

First of all, not everyone emigrates because of hate for their homeland, many do it for necessity and keep close ties.

Some emigrate to search fortune to one day return.

Some emigrate for love, of people or things.

And even those that in the end emigrate because they didn't like their country might still want to fight, not for the country, but for the people that they love that still live in it.

I pay $100/month + 3%/transaction + $0.3/transaction.

All the gateways I looked at seem to have a relatively similar fee structure. Because of the low price of the service the $0.3 fee is really huge.

I don't need a store or subscription billing or anything fancy, I just want the customer to pay and I get a ping on an webhook. I really can't increase the product price either. It's a small impulse purchase, making it more expensive would completely remove any appeal.

I looked at:

- Stripe

- Podia

- Gumroad

- Mollie

Any other suggestions? Thank you very much.

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