Teenagers who read news online may be a criminals, according to the DoJ (2013)

Re:Teenagers who read news online may be a criminals, accord... by phkahler on Monday July 31, 2017 @09:31AM (#14891741)

If violating a web sites terms of service is a felony, then the government has delegated authority in defining felonies to every web site operator. That is not appropriate.

This goes back to the old problem of identity. If people were identifiable on the internet then web sites could easily blacklist or whitelist users and no rely on ToS for things like this.

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Re:Teenagers who read news online may be a criminals, accord... by mtl_usr on Monday July 31, 2017 @01:13PM (#14893886)

I was once called "snobbish" because I used the term " transitive" while discussing a similar issue with non-technical people in the legal field.

If only the legislator understood technology instead of simply using the "everything is a contract" and the "website is like a house people can break into" (failed) analogies.

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Re:Teenagers who read news online may be a criminals, accord... by ttflee on Monday July 31, 2017 @10:29AM (#14892300)

https://www.xkcd.com/501/

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