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Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by pjc50 on Friday March 01, 2019 @04:54PM (#19285682)
You might want to check what "strict liability" means for the relevant offenses. Certainly in the UK a hoster who didn't immediately choose to take down CP would not find a court order, they'd be raided and prosecuted.
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Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by AnthonyMouse on Saturday March 02, 2019 @11:09AM (#19289748)
Which is exactly the problem. Bad laws make it so we can't have nice things.
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Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by pjc50 on Saturday March 02, 2019 @12:45PM (#19290164)
Well, they also make it so you can't have some really horrible things, and a bit less likely that children will have horrible things done to them.
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Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @02:39AM (#19308839)
> Well, they also make it so you can't have some really horrible things

The really horrible things can and do happen regardless of whether you make platforms liable for user content.

> and a bit less likely that children will have horrible things done to them.

There is no real evidence that is true and several reasons to expect that it isn't, in much the same ways that SESTA made life more difficult and dangerous for sex workers.

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